Definition of Paraphrasers

1. Noun. (plural of paraphraser) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paraphrasers

1. paraphraser [n] - See also: paraphraser

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraphrasers

paraphily
paraphimoses
paraphing
paraphonia
paraphora
paraphosphoric
paraphragma
paraphragmata
paraphrasable
paraphrasably
paraphrase
paraphraseable
paraphrased
paraphraser
paraphrasers (current term)
paraphrases
paraphrasia
paraphrasing
paraphrasis
paraphrast
paraphrastic
paraphrasts
paraphrenia
paraphrenias
paraphrenic
paraphrenic schizophrenia
paraphs
paraphyla
paraphyletic

Literary usage of Paraphrasers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... as it inevitably was to homilists and hagiographers, practitioners of sacred allegory, and paraphrasers of the Scriptures. Here, and perhaps here only, ..."

2. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... as it inevitably was to homilists and hagiographers, practitioners of sacred allegory, and paraphrasers of the Scriptures. Here, and perhaps here only, ..."

3. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"1 HS Pancoast, Some paraphrasers of Milton, in Andover Review, xv. 53. 1 Peace of the Augustans, a Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literature as a Place of ..."

4. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"Some of these poets adopted, no doubt, Caedmon's method, which may have been hymnic, and among them there were simple paraphrasers of the Sacred Books, ..."

5. Byron and Byronism in America by William Ellery Leonard (1905)
"Byron's apostrophe was a favorite theme with paraphrasers.8 Another once popular tribute to Byron's memory was John Neal's turgid, but often musical, ..."

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