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Categories: Rhetoric, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Narrative techniques, English literary movements
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euphuism  Euphuisms  Euphuist  Euphuistic
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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 WordNet 3.0
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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. Wikipedia
an affected bombastic style of language Wikidata
An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes. Wiktionary
Style of writing. Wiktionary (translation)
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Euphuisms, Euphuist, Euphuistic

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