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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. 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.

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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.