EUPHUISM
- an artificially elegant style of speech or writing [n EUPHUISMS]
- an affected literary style [n -S]
- an elegant Elizabethan literary style marked by excessive use of balance, antithesis, and alliteration and by frequent use of similes drawn from mythology and nature
- 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
- any similar ornate style of writing or speaking; high-flown, periphrastic language
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