The distinction had to be explained with much periphrasis, because the Arabic word 'Câtil' means a slayer, and is given indiscriminately to all who kill. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference
Which is not the same, although a close periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [Well, at least Helen Thomas…] Reference
"Trionfo d'Amore," decently veils the victim in a periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
And with this happy periphrasis, our friend admitted his defeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Para-puh-lease, but this periphrasis was most beneficial to my lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [ParaMonday « Fairegarden] Reference
To avoid a cumbrous periphrasis, which again would be unintelligible to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
He is oftentimes a prude, and, unlike Proust, who is quite direct, he is not averse to periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. ['Proust's Way?': An Exchange] Reference
Their periphrasis, or finding figurative names for persons and things, is common to the Norse poetry. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
As that poem explains, his name could not be used in elegiac verse: hence the periphrasis in this passage. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
This proves that the use of that periphrasis was general, and that it must have dated back to a much earlier period. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
I would point here specifically to Longinus's later comments on periphrasis, "with its odour of empty talk and its swelling amplitude.". From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime] Reference
"These are two forelands, well known to sailors, nigh twenty miles asunder, and the proverb passeth for the periphrasis of an impossibility.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
It is only by periphrasis that all this can be expressed. From Wordnik.com. [Paul et Virginie. English] Reference
It is a disgraceful fact to record of him without periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
Evangelist not say, without that periphrasis, 'healed the sick'?. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs. From Wordnik.com. [Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel] Reference
Why did He use this periphrasis of my text, 'Who it is that saith unto thee. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV] Reference
By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was intended. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
The provincial word emparamarse can be translated only by a very long periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Milton says the word, and thereby shows that he is not seeking idle periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
"What do you mean by that, my dear friend?" said Prosper blandly, defying periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
Happiness is with him an aim that we are at liberty to seek directly and without periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference
But in Puritan America there is an additional problem, which I can hardly explain without a periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
In all inquiries the writer has found it necessary to use periphrasis or to appeal to some illustration. From Wordnik.com. [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference
He seemed to get much joy of this mouth-filling periphrasis as sneeringly he spoke of their common master. From Wordnik.com. [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference
To name the sinner, and to state without cloak or periphrasis what his deed really was, is condemnation enough. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
They had what were called "the courtly manners of the old school"; were diffuse in style, and abounded in periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference
There was no possibility of mistaking it; it said at once, without periphrasis, 'Cross my purpose, and I will crush you! '. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
If invention ceased to create, it must necessarily trick out what was commonplace in ingenuities of decorative periphrasis. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
Blocks, axes, Whitehall tribunals, were covered with flowers of so cunning a periphrasis -- as Mr. Bayes says, never naming the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
Surely a memory which is exercised without any consciousness of recollecting is only a periphrasis for the absence of any memory at all. From Wordnik.com. [Unconscious Memory] Reference
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