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euphuism

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1 euphuism

Any artificially elegant style of language.

Roget 855: affectation; affectedness etc. adj.; acting a part etc. v.; pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting ... meer laten zien

Roget 579: inelegance; stiffness etc. adj.; unlettered Muse" [Gray]; barbarism; slang etc. 563; solecism etc. 568; mannerism ... meer laten zien

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence; altiloquence etc. adj.; declamation, teratology; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; ... meer laten zien

2 euphuism

An elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology.

Pools: eufuizm


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, asiaticism, device, elegance, euphemism, exquisiteness, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, floridity, flourish, flower, flowery style, formalism ... meer laten zien.

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