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euphuism

/yoo-fyoo-iz-uhm/US // ˈyu fyuˌɪz əm //UK // (ˈjuːfjuːˌɪzəm) //

安乐主义,安乐死主义,安乐死,安乐窝

Related Words

grandiloquence大言不惭,大言不惭的,大言不惭地,大嘴rhetoric修辞学,言辞,修辞,辞令bombast高谈阔论,高调,高调行事delicacy美味佳肴,美味,珍馐,美味的东西wordiness词汇量,字数,词汇量大,措辞pomposity浮夸风,浮夸,虚张声势,浮夸风气fustian锈迹斑斑,锈蚀,锈色,锈迹斑斑的floridness花色,花絮,花式,花色品种purism纯粹主义,纯洁主义,纯洁性,纯粹的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an affected style in imitation of that of Lyly, fashionable in England about the end of the 16th century, characterized chiefly by long series of antitheses and frequent similes relating to mythological natural history, and alliteration.Compare Euphues.
    • : any similar ornate style of writing or speaking; high-flown, periphrastic language.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
gongorism贡品主义,锣鼓喧天,锣鼓声,贡品bombast高谈阔论,高调,高调行事delicacy美味佳肴,美味,珍馐,美味的东西floridness花色,花絮,花式,花色品种fustian锈迹斑斑,锈蚀,锈色,锈迹斑斑的grandiloquence大言不惭,大言不惭的,大言不惭地,大嘴pomposity浮夸风,浮夸,虚张声势,浮夸风气purism纯粹主义,纯洁主义,纯洁性,纯粹的rhetoric修辞学,言辞,修辞,辞令wordiness词汇量,字数,词汇量大,措辞

Examples

  • There is more than a touch of Euphuism in Stevenson; he was never insincere, but he was consciously fine.

  • Much euphuism, much studied grace of manner, much formal assertion of scholarship, mingling with his force of imagination.

  • It was not the matter of Euphues, however, so much as the style which made it famous (see Euphuism).

  • Euphuism owes to him its name and its diffusion in England; but not, although it is usually so stated, its birth.

  • Cynthia's Revels has the same defects, but is to some extent saved by its sharp raillery of euphuism.

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