periphrasis

• The meaning of the divine periphrasis was therefore denatured. —  cafebabel.com
• Reader, he was one of those anomalous practitioners in lower departments of the law who--what shall I say?--who on prudential reasons, or from necessity, deny themselves all indulgence in the luxury of too delicate a conscience, (a periphrasis which might be abridged considerably, but that I leave to the reader's taste): in many walks of life a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage; and just as people talk of "laying down" their carriages, so I suppose my friend Mr had "laid down" his conscience for a time, meaning, doubtless, to resume it as soon as he could afford it. —  Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• But now to the case, which, for the sake of avoiding the constant recurrence of a cumbersome periphrasis, the author will take the liberty of giving in the first person Those who have read the Confessions will have closed them with the impression that I had wholly renounced the use of opium. —  Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• Japanese education permitted "both sexes indifferently to speak of everything without the slightest periphrasis, or any respect for persons, even children." —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• This proves that the use of that periphrasis was general, and that it must have dated back to a much earlier period. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

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