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Euphuism

noun
1.
Any artificially elegant style of language.
2.
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.





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"Euphuism" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself has expounded his theory and practice of prose, doubtless with a side-thought of self-justification, in various places up and down his writings, notably in his pregnant essay on "Style," and perhaps even more persuasively in the chapter called "Euphuism" in Marius. In this last he thus goes to the ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne
... the schoolmaster, who cultivates minds, and Sir Nathaniel, the curate, who cures them, and Don Armado or Don Adramadio, from the flowery heights of the new Belles Lettres, with the last refinement of Euphuism on his lips, and Antony Dull, and the country damsel and her swain, and the princess and her attendants, are all there to eke out and complete the philosophic design,—to exhibit the extant learning in its airy flights and gross descents, in its ludicrous ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon


Words linked to "Euphuism" :   expressive style, prose, Gongorism, style


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