'periphrasis' in Collected Stories | Bookmarker

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(noun) use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression / (noun) an instance of periphrasis

put up with redundancy, prolixity, periphrasis, or bombast

—p.438 Afterword (438) by Saul Bellow

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