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noun (English)
1. (linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.Examples: "Language learners sometimes use periphrases like "did go" where a native speaker would use "went"."; "Native speakers use periphrases like "did not go" where a language learner might use "went not"."countableuncountable
2. (rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a type of circumlocution).Examples: "Periphrasis a single thought expands, And uses many words for what but few demands."; "The "glen," or the "brake of the lion," is Pindar's favourite periphrasis for Nemea."countablerhetoricuncountable
3. (rhetoric) The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.countablerhetoricuncountable
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