In linguistics and literature, periphrasis (/pəˈrɪfrəsɪs/) is the use of a larger number of words, with an implicit comparison to the possibility of using...

Circumlocution (also called circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, kenning,[dubious – discuss] or ambage[citation needed]) is the use of an unnecessarily...

fact that the remote preterite tense of verbs is usually formed with a periphrasis consisting of the verb "to go" plus infinitive. Catalan has two types...

as a euphemism for their problematic words infirmité or invalidité. Periphrasis, or circumlocution, is one of the most common: to "speak around" a given...

obligatoriness was not complete until the nineteenth. The increasing use of do periphrasis coincides with the fixing of SVO word order. Not surprisingly, do is...

ellipsis Noun phrase Number Object Open class word Part of speech Particle Periphrasis Person Personal pronoun Phrasal verb Phrase Phrase structure grammar...

periphrases for tense and mode. Here we list the most common. The perfect periphrasis is composed of the sum auxiliary and a perfect participle such as ductus...

 227. United Kingdom: House of Commons. ...there would be no clumsy periphrasis of the kind. The Majesty of England requires for its support no such...

Saint Theophan the Recluse"). "Our Lady of Lourdes" is essentially periphrasis, except where some aspect of the Virgin is invoked.[citation needed]...

Cœle-Syria. Ptolemy does not use the term "Transjordan", but rather the periphrasis "across the Jordan". And he enumerates the cities; Cosmas, Libias, Callirhoe...