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A Writer's Dictionary:

periphrastic Definition


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periphrastic
adj
    1. Using periphrasis.
    2. grammar.
      Said especially of a verb tense involving an auxiliary: using at least two words instead of a single inflected form.
Derivative: periphrastically
adverb


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