Periphrastic Definition

pĕrə-frăstĭk
adjective
Of, like, or expressed in periphrasis.
Webster's New World
Formed with a particle or an auxiliary verb instead of by inflection (Ex.: the phrase did sing used for the inflected form sang)
Webster's New World

Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.

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Origin of Periphrastic

  • Borrowed from Ancient Greek περιφραστικός (periphrastikos), from περίφρασις (periphrasis, “periphrasis").

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Periphrastic Sentence Examples

  • The periphrastic superlatives also greatly outnumber the inflectional superlatives from the Late Middle English period onwards.

  • The earliest example of this periphrastic perfect carries us back to the 15th century.

  • Much of this must have taken place, according to the theory, in the prehistoric period; but the loss of weak consonants, of y, and of one of two repeated consonants, and the development of periphrastic conjugations continued to the end.

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Words Starting With

PPEPER

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Words Starting With P and Ending With C

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