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Definition of "paraphrastically" []

  • In a paraphrastic manner.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "paraphrastically" in a sentence
  • "All things considered, if my parents had given me a name that spelled "toilet" backwards sans "s," I might be a little on the wonky side meself; it was Marshall McLuhan a huge EliotiCan fan, after all, who noted, paraphrastically, in Understanding Media, "For the name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.""
  • "Kitten essayed a few eloquent twitches, paraphrastically speaking, and felt up to the task."
  • "Walter Scott as specimens of the bard, and may be found paraphrastically rendered in a prose version, in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. xlv., p. 371, and in the notes to the last edition of "The Highland Drover," in"