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Definition of Paraphrasers
1. paraphraser [n] - See also: paraphraser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraphrasers
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, ..."