1) Expressive style 2) Style
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- any artificially elegant style of language
- 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 is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing in deliberate excess a wide range of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions and rhetorical questions. Classical learning and remote knowledge of ...
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high-flown and affected style of writing
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• (n.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
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an elegant Elizabethan literary style marked by excessive use of balance, antithesis, and alliteration and by frequent use of similes drawn from ... [1 related articles]
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Not to be confused with euphemism, above, euphuism is a highly ornate style of writing popularized b
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Eu'phu·ism (ū'fu*ĭz'm)
noun [ Greek
e'yfyh`s well grown, graceful;
e'y^ well +
fyh` growth, from
fy`ein to grow. This affected style of conversation and writing, fashionable for some time in the court of Elizabeth, had its origin from the fame o...
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Euphuism is an affected style of language which was prevalent during the time of Elizabeth I and arose from 'Euphues; the Anatomy of Wit' by John Lyly published in 1581.
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n] - any artificially elegant style of language 2. [n] - an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period
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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
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an affected style in imitation of that of Lyly, fashionable in England about the end of the 16th century, characterized chiefly by long series of antitheses and frequent similes relating to mythological natural history, and alliteration. Cf. Euphues. · any similar ornate style of writing or speaking; high-flown, periphrastic language.
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