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Definition of Phrasemaking
1. [n -S]
2. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrasemaking
Literary usage of Phrasemaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"... technical capacity,— how many things are necessary to the critic, without
reckoning grace, delicacy, savoir vivre, and the gift of happy phrasemaking! ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1856)
"... the declamatory, and the abstract style of conversation, — that trick of
phrasemaking, as he termed it, which (in common with Byron) he detected and ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... without, or with but a moderate portion of, rhetoric and amplification and
phrasemaking, he handles separate authors and works and pieces. ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"We believe that peace and neutrality, as well as the dignity and influence of
the United States, cannot be preserved by shifty expedients, by phrasemaking, ..."
5. The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism by Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"These problems will not be solved by rhetoric. Least of all will they be solved
by competitive rhetoric. Masters of phrasemaking may win immense, ..."
6. Selected Essays by Abraham Hayward (1879)
"the declamatory, and the abstract style of conversation,—that trick of phrasemaking,
as he termed it, which (in common with Byron) he detected and detested ..."
7. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1858)
"... facts, and incidents, in contradistinction to the vague, the declamatory, and
the abstract style of conversation, — that trick of phrasemaking, ..."
8. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"What boots it to wonder at the poets, particularly those who care for nought but
phrasemaking, who endorse the opinion of ..."
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