periphrasis
/puh-rif-ruh-sis/US // pəˈrɪf rə sɪs //UK // (pəˈrɪfrəsɪs) //
语气词,语境,句法,句子
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural pe·riph·ra·ses [puh-rif-ruh-seez]. /pəˈrɪf rəˌsiz/.
- : the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
- : an expression phrased in such fashion.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In Modern French the pronominal inversion (the substantive being prefixed) or a verbal periphrasis must be used—Saul est-il?
Periphras′tic, -al, containing or expressed by periphrasis or circumlocution.
Be it remarked that this periphrasis indicated his mother; and that the bread he alluded to is made with a species of leaven.
"Prop of sea-waves' fire," a periphrasis for a woman that bears gold on her arm.
"He that hoardeth ocean's fire," a periphrasis for man, Hauskuld of Whiteness.
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