Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or having the nature of paraphrase.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of a paraphrase; free, clear, and ample in explanation; explaining or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the original.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to a
paraphrase .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective altered by paraphrasing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The same kind of paraphrastic dilution runs through the volume; nor is
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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The Romantic Body is primarily a thematic and paraphrastic book about sex in work by three poets.
Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008
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Mutilated, fragmentary and paraphrastic though the tales were, the glamour of imagination, the marvel of the miracles and the gorgeousness and magnificence of the scenery at once secured an exceptional success; it was a revelation in romance, and the public recognised that it stood in presence of a monumental literary work.
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On our own part, we beg to add, that we understand the style of the translator is more paraphrastic than can be approved by those who are acquainted with the singularly curious original.
The Talisman 2008
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I mean also the ability to decode even mildly complex uses of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary and thus to analyze and understand a written text on a paraphrastic, much less a fully "literary," level.
Ode on a Grecian Urn 2003
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What follows is my very rough paraphrase-translation of the French it is only paraphrastic, although a fairly close one; for a closer translation, see Jolley-Scott 210ff.
Why God Likes Bugs 2005
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What follows is my very rough paraphrase-translation of the French it is only paraphrastic, although a fairly close one; for a closer translation, see Jolley-Scott 210ff.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Here, again, Payne is concise and literal, Burton diffuse and gratuitously paraphrastic as appears above and everywhere, and the other remarks which we made when dealing with the Nights proper also apply, except, of course, that in this instance Burton had not
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It is almost too much when, as from the pulpit, a paraphrastic commentary is prepared for our spiritual improvement.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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Mr. Sparks found among Franklin's papers the following paraphrastic version: [56] --
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
smeggo commented on the word paraphrastic
I would define it slightly differently.
October 10, 2008