paraphrastic

[ par-uh-fras-tik ]

adjective

1. having the nature of a paraphrase.

Other Words From

• para·phrasti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of paraphrastic¹

1615–25; < Medieval Latin paraphrasticus < Greek paraphrastikós. See paraphrast, -ic

Example Sentences

Bartholomew also supplied the words of "Hear my Prayer," "which," he says, "its dear and lamented author composed for my paraphrastic version of the 55th Psalm."

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The remaining versions are paraphrastic and less accurate, and are guilty of additions and omissions.

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The translations I have given are sometimes paraphrastic, and virtually contain glosses or interpretations which make it necessary to warn the reader against regarding them as in every case Dante's ipsissima verba.

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His version, printed at Paris 1685, is somewhat better in point of style than those of Marolles, but is not more faithful to the original, being extremely paraphrastic.

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To this opinion we shall the rather incline, if we attend to another paraphrastic interpretation.

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