Euphuism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
2. isim An instance of euphuism.

   ““Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen” seems to be “Generalstatesrepresentativesmeetings,” as nearly as I can get at it,—a mere rhythmical, gushy euphuism for “meetings of the legislature,” I judge.”

3. isim Misconstruction of euphemism.

   “Is he one who has led a wild and struggling and isolated life,—seeing few but plain and outspoken Northerns, unskilled in the euphuisms which assist the polite world to skim over the mention of vice?”

4. isim Alternative letter-case form of euphuism.

   “Modern eyes see less of the wit than of the dregs in the works of [Robert] Greene and his compeers; but the attacks which [Thomas] Nash directed against the Puritans and his rivals were the first English works which shook utterly off the pedantry and extravagance of Euphuism.”