Crossword-Solution: PERIPHRASIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Periphrasis | n. | See Periphrase. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PERIPHRASIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the use of longer phrasing in place of a shorter form of expression | 1 answer |
| The use of indirect language | 1 answer |
| Roundabout expression | 1 answer |
| A ROUNDABOUT ROAD | 10 answers |
| verboseness | 17 answers |
| circumlocution | 18 answers |
| verbal effusion | 18 answers |
| using euphemisms | 18 answers |
| prolixity | 18 answers |
| tautology | 19 answers |
| verbosity | 19 answers |
| pleonasm | 19 answers |
| Verbiage | 19 answers |
| wordiness | 20 answers |
| verbalism | 25 answers |
| loquacity | 25 answers |
| windiness | 25 answers |
| diffuseness | 28 answers |
| redundancy | 36 answers |
| output | 38 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
| Oration | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERIPHRASIS (5)
They do not seem to understand that there could never have been any conceivable need of inventing a periphrasis for what did not exist." Sir Thomas Browne regarded Borsdale for a while intently.
His feelings of integrity would not have been alarmed by a periphrasis, but this plain speaking shocked him.
Scattered through its more serious matter are gems with the old “Eothen” sparkle, of periphrasis, aphorism, felicitous phrase and pregnant epithet.
Where there is an obscurity too deep for our reason, ’tis good to sit down with a description, periphrasis, or adumbration;[12] for, by acquainting our reason how unable it is to display the visible and obvious effects of nature, it becomes more humble and submissive unto the subtleties of faith: and thus I teach my haggard and unreclaimed reason to stoop unto the lure of faith.
Rannveig said, "May be the deed is good; but somehow," she says, "I feel too downcast about it to think that good can come of it." ENDNOTES: (1) "Water-skates," a periphrasis for ships.
Quotes with PERIPHRASIS (2)
But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis. Plain speaking, therefore, there is to be.“There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son mighthave fallen — or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the …
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).