Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Close or literal in translation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Close, or literal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or produced using
metaphrase
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Examples
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But such a poor metaphrastic and half-circular exposition of vital force would never answer the necessities of that profounder profundity required for the success of modern scientific treatises.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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It was reserved to Dryden manfully to claim and vindicate the freedom of a just translation; more limited than paraphrase, but free from the metaphrastic severity exacted from his predecessors.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882
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It was reserved to Dryden manfully to claim and vindicate the freedom of a just translation; more limited than paraphrase, but free from the metaphrastic severity exacted from his predecessors.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801
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