Crossword-Solution: PERIPHRASE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Periphrase | n. | The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. |
| Periphrase | v. t. | To express by periphrase or circumlocution. |
| Periphrase | v. i. | To use circumlocution. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PERIPHRASE”
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| to use more words than are necessary to express an idea | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PERIPHRASE (5)
Nevertheless, I have taken care, much to my vexation, to weed from the manuscripts the old words, which, in spite of their age, were still strong, and which would have shocked the ears, astonished the eyes, reddened the cheeks and sullied the lips of trousered maidens, and Madame Virtue with three lovers; for certain things must be done to suit the vices of the age, and a periphrase is much more agreeable than the word.
But her further questioning was met with a frank, amiable, and simple brevity that was as puzzling as the most artful periphrase of tact.
The sun, which Dubartas, that classic ancestor of periphrase, had not yet dubbed the “Grand-duke of Candles,” was none the less radiant and joyous on that account.
Arabic has no equivalent of our “Thank you” (Kassara ’llah Khayr-ak being a mere blessing Allah increase thy weal!), nor can Al-lslam express gratitude save by a periphrase.
And also tell me frankly, without periphrase, what the Musik- Verein wishes and expects from the patronage of the Grand Duke of Weimar?--One ought not to shoot about at random with Royal Highnesses! It would only lead to a vexatious loss of powder.