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   periphrastic

   /ˌpɛrɪˈfrastɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. (of speech or writing) indirect and circumlocutory: "the periphrastic nature of legal syntax"
   • ▪ (of a case or tense) formed by a combination of words rather than by inflection (such as did go and of the people rather than went and the people's).

   Word Origin late 18th century: from medieval Latinperiphrasticus or Greek periphrastikos, from periphrazein ‘declare in a roundabout way’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. periphrastically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 21

   • P

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   • E

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   • R

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   • P

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   • H

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   • R

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   • A

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   • T

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   • I

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