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EUPHUISM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythologyplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("euphuism" is a kind of...):

prose (ordinary writing as distinguished from verse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any artificially elegant style of languageplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("euphuism" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "euphuism"):

Gongorism (an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora)

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