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Periphrasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, periphrasis (Gk. peri as a preposition means "around, about, beyond", the greek preposition is cognate with Skt. pari "around, about, through," ) is a device by which a grammatical c...
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Periphrastic: Having the nature of or characterized by periphrasis. ... as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful F The translations which we have thus far considered were mere fragments--brief soliloquies or a single sonnet, and they were done into a dialect which was not then and is not now...
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As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful. ... 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. ... periphrastic conjugation...
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The passive periphrastic is a Latin construction that expresses ought to or must.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about periphrastic. periphrastic. Information about periphrastic in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from periphrastic)
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