Crossword-Solution: EUPHUISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Euphuism | n. | An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “EUPHUISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AFFECTEDLY periphrastic style or language | 1 answer |
| high-flown language | 2 answers |
| euphemism | 8 answers |
| AN ELEGANT STYLE OF PROSE OF THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD | 11 answers |
| Figure of speech | 23 answers |
| figure | 66 answers |
| Ornamentation | 70 answers |
| Affectation | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EUPHUISM (5)
Indeed, a note of weeping broke her voice for a moment as she burst out, “You know as well as I do that money was a loan!” “Loan!” “You yourself called it a loan!” “Euphuism.
Observe the playfulness in Sidney’s opening and close of a treatise written throughout in plain, manly English without Euphuism, and strictly reasoned.
This being written only a year or two after the publication of “Euphues,” represents that style of the day which was not created but represented by the book from which it took the name of “Euphuism.” {92} Nizolian paper-books, are commonplace books of quotable passages, so called because an Italian grammarian, Marius Nizolius, born at Bersello in the fifteenth century, and one of the scholars of the Renaissance in the sixteenth, was one of the first producers of such volumes.
Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of wood-craft, and I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the "Wreaths" and "Flora's chaplets" of the bookshops; yet ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic, or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
EUPHUISM So the famous story composed itself in the memory of Marius, with an expression changed in some ways from the original and on the whole graver.
Quotes with EUPHUISM (1)
When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was thinking of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphues. The poem itself would be a subtle series of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his contempt and boredom with that …