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periphrastically

/per-uh-fras-tik/US // ˌpɛr əˈfræs tɪk //UK // (ˌpɛrɪˈfræstɪk) //

周而复始地,句法上,周而复始,句式上

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : circumlocutory; roundabout.
    • : Grammar. noting a construction of two or more words having the same syntactic function as an inflected word, as of Mr. Smith in the son of Mr. Smith, which is equivalent to Mr. Smith's in Mr. Smith's son.

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Examples

  • This was supplied, in the common periphrastic manner, by the help of the preposition and the article.

  • When the present is found not to be distinctive enough, periphrastic forms come in.

  • This tendency, together with periphrastic instead of verbal conjugation, continued to the end.

  • In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.

  • As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.