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Definitions of periphrastic:

  • adjective:   roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
    Example: "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T.S.Eliot"



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