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Definition of Paraphrastic
1. Adjective. Altered by paraphrasing.
Definition of Paraphrastic
1. a. Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free.
Definition of Paraphrastic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to a paraphrase. ¹
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Definition of Paraphrastic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraphrastic
Literary usage of Paraphrastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1905)
"... principle of literal exactness, Rowe followed Dryden's paraphrastic method,
and it is interesting to compare the different results of the two versions. ..."
2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"iv 111 \ JY OF This interpretation finds full expression in Sir PART v.
William Jones's paraphrastic translation, which is paraphrastic aS ..."
3. The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for (1814)
"paraphrastic HYMN. Ron. ch. vii. v. 19. " The good that I would, I do not; but
tht evil which I would not, that 1 do. ..."
4. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"... which this grand old legend wears in the book which we pored over in boyhood,
rather than the elaborate and paraphrastic rendering of Mr. Longfellow. ..."
5. The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11 (1814)
"paraphrastic HYMN. ROM. ch. vii. v. 19. " The good that I would, I do not; but
the evil which I would not, ..."
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