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periphrasis(dictionary)
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periphrasis noun. . M16.
[Latin from Greek, from periphrazein, formed as PERI- + phrazein declare.]
The figure of speech which consists in expressing a meaning by many or several words instead of by few or one; a roundabout way of speaking or writing; (a) circumlocution.