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para·phrast
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paraphrastnoun
someone who paraphrases
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Paraphrastnoun
A lax interpreter; one who explains in many words.
Etymology: paraphraste, Fr. παϱαφϱαστὴς.
The fittest for publick audience are such, as following a middle course between the rigor of literal translators and the liberty of paraphrasts, do, with great shortness and plainess, deliver the meaning. Richard Hooker.
The chaldean paraphrast renders Gerah by Meath. Arbuth.
Webster Dictionary
Paraphrastnoun
a paraphraser
Etymology: [L. paraphrastes, Gr. : cf. F. paraphraste.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of paraphrast in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of paraphrast in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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