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phraseology

Noun

Meaning

Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.

A collection of phrases; a phrase book.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. Christian Nestell Bovee

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology. Alexis de Tocqueville

But the [communist] authorities acquire from Marxism a splendid method and abounding phraseology to justify whatever piggery. Aleksandr Zinovyev

Because class oppression of women and children couched in the phraseology of "cute" it is much harder to fight than open oppression. Shulamith Firestone

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. George Woodcock

Shakespeare avows, although in phraseology that is often cryptic, the experiences of his own heart. Sidney Lee

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