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periphrase

noun

[Gr. about, and to speak.]

s as z. Circumlocution; a circuit of words; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a figure of rhetoric employed to avoid a common and trite manner of expression.

periphrase

verb transitive
To express by circumlocution.

periphrase

verb intransitive
To use circumlocution.