Periphrastic vs Periphrasic - What's the difference?
periphrastic | periphrasic |
Expressed in more words than are necessary.
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Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
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(grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.
As adjectives the difference between periphrastic and periphrasic
is that periphrastic is expressed in more words than are necessary while periphrasic is of or pertaining to periphrasis.periphrastic
English
Adjective
(-)An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
- As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic , arbitrary, not at all faithful.
- "That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings."
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
- In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being [… and] in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good .
- “The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.