paraphrastic

Definitions

Examples

• Grundtvigs translation4 had been so paraphrastic as often to obscure the sense, and always the spirit, of the original.

• Heyne is never paraphrastic—he never adds anything foreign to the poem.

• This mental capacity is most likely to be acquired by the regular and persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise.

• The remaining versions are paraphrastic and less accurate, and are guilty of additions and omissions.

• I quote a result which Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman said was too paraphrastic.