What's the difference between periphrase and periphrasis?
Periphrase
Definition:
(n.) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
(v. t.) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
(v. i.) To use circumlocution.
Example Sentences:
(1) (1) Deviation and periphrase: while psychopathologically these breaks in the narrative are deviations from the main thread of argument, stylistically they are periphrasic statements, all having identical structures.