Associations to the word «Periphrase»
Wiktionary
PERIPHRASE, noun. (rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
PERIPHRASE, verb. (transitive) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
PERIPHRASE, verb. (intransitive) To use circumlocution.
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.