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periphrastically

Variant of periphrastic

adjective

  1. of, like, or expressed in periphrasis
  2. Gram. formed with a particle or an auxiliary verb instead of by inflection (Ex.: the phrase did sing used for the inflected form sang)

Origin: ML periphrasticus < Gr periphrastikos

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