PARAPHRASE


Meaning of PARAPHRASE in English

n. & v.

n. a free rendering or rewording of a passage.

v.tr. express the meaning of (a passage) in other words. paraphrastic adj.

[ F paraphrase or L paraphrasis f. Gk paraphrasis f. paraphrazo (as PARA-(1) phrazo tell) ]

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