Euphuism

[Eu·phu*ism]

Any artificially elegant style of language

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An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

Noun
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 mythology

Noun
any artificially elegant style of language


n.
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.


Euphuism

Eu"phu*ism , n. [Gr. well grown, graceful; well + growth, fr. to grow. This affected style of conversation and writing, fashionable for some time in the court of Elizabeth, had its origin from the fame of Lyly's books, "Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit," and "Euphues and his England."] (Rhet.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

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