| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| periphrasis |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pe·riph·ra·sis |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p -r f r-ss |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. pe·riph·ra·ses (-s z )
1. The use of circumlocution. 2. A circumlocution. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin, from Greek, from periphrazein, to express periphrastically : peri-, peri- + phrazein, to say; see gwhren- in Appendix I.
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