periphrasis

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• 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 He caught my meaning sooner than I had expected Ah!' —  Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
• Of which Pope makes this sweeping periphrasis -- —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title
• 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. —  Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
• Their construction is simple: anything in Nature you please is described by a poetical periphrasis, and you are asked what it is. —  Modern Mythology
• One is reminded by Mr. Saintsbury's summary of many features which we have observed in the English academicism of the eighteenth century; the impoverished vocabulary, _e. g._, which makes itself evident in the annotations on the text of Spenser and other old authors; the horror of common terms, and the constant abuse of the periphrasis -- the "gelid cistern," the "stercoraceous heap," the —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

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