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euphuist
noun
(eu-phu-ism)
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
euphuist
noun
(eu-phu-ism)
artificial elegance of language
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expressive style
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gongorism
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cacozelia
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extradictionary
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diction
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euphuize
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grecism
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atticism
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italicism
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idioglossia
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figure of speech
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italianism
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hispanism
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set phrase
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artificial language
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laconism
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cockneyism
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grammatist
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verbality
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vernacularism
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johnsonese
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subject case
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hypallage
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chaldaism
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basic english
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proseman
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facound
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sinicism
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prosimetrical
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eloquence
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prose
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elegance
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sociolect
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tralation
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languageless
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dorism
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englishism
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language
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bombastry
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grave accent
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inaffectation
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prosaist
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rhetorical device
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prosal
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syllabism
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audenesque
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literary composition
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ciceronianism
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vers de societe
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vulgar latin
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latino sine flexione
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phonotypy
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verbalist
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acute accent
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epanadiplosis
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brachyology
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heroic verse
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subtlety
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descriptive linguistics
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literary study
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give voice
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idiom
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metalinguistics
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transprose
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orthoepist
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facundity
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tagmeme
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teutonism
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sophistication
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minimal pair
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comitative
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historical linguistics
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refinement
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early modern english
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formal language
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new criticism
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pitch accent
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eye rhyme
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pasigraphy
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suaviloquy
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grammatication
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lambdacism
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old french
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hyperbaton
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briticism
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toneme
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landsmal
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metagraphy
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