Phrasing Definition
frāzĭng
noun
The act or manner of formulating phrases; phraseology.
Webster's New World
The manner in which an expression is phrased.
American Heritage
The manner in which one phrases musical passages.
Webster's New World
The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
1870 But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it -- would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 46.
Wiktionary
verb
Present participle of phrase.
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Other Word Forms of Phrasing
Noun
Singular:
phrasing
Plural:
phrasings
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