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Definition of Euphuisms
1. euphuism [n] - See also: euphuism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphuisms
Literary usage of Euphuisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures and Essays by Alfred Ainger (1905)
"fashion, but you shall not live, and you shall forfeit your claim to poetic
greatness. I can only briefly indicate some of the other euphuisms of the ..."
2. The Life and Letters of Alfred Ainger by Edith Helen Sichel (1906)
"I enumerated various euphuisms, as I called them, of this nature. ... Dickens,
Macaulay euphuisms, in prose; and in poetry a Pope euphuism in past days, ..."
3. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1846)
"His linguistic euphuisms might very well have been taken as prima Jacie evidence
of his philosophic ones ; they were the froth which indicated, first, ..."
4. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1846)
"His linguistic euphuisms might very well have been taken as prima Jade evidence
of his philosophic ones ; they were the froth which indicated, first, ..."
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