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periphrasis

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PERIPHRASIS. Circumlocution; the use of other words to express the sense of one.
     2. Some words are so technical in their meaning that in charging offences in indictments they must be used or the indictment will not be sustained; for example, an indictment for treason must contain the word traitorously; (q.v.) an indictment for burglary, burglariously; ( q.v.) and feloniously (q.v.) must be introduced into every indictment for felony. 1 Chitty's Cr. Law, 242; 3 Inst. 15; Carth. 319; 2 Hale, P. C. 172; 184;, 4 Bl. Com. 307; Hawk B. 2, c. 25, s. 55; 1 East P. C. 115; Bac. Ab. Indictment, G 1; Com. ]Dig. Indictment, G 6 Cro. C. C. 37.
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But when they talk to family and friends outside this magic circle, their account is often halting, peppered with periphrasis and understatement.
Through a lens darkly by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
18) French at midcentury was still to some degree constrained by a lack of vocabulary--most especially of technical terms and abstract and collective nouns--while Greek was held to be the richest of languages, excelling in just these domains: thus, cultural difficulties aside, a good bit of periphrasis was inevitable.
Homer for the court of Francois I by Rothstein, Marian / Renaissance Quarterly
Again, the result has been to strip away the insidious periphrasis that so often muffles the power of the Hebrew in previous translations (including the King James).
From Moses to Musa by Ormsby, Eric / New Criterion
 
 
 
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