rephrasingn.
/ˌriːˈfreɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /riˈfreɪzɪŋ/ The action or an act of expressing something differently.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > use of
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phraseology1670
rephrasing1881
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > mode of expression > turn of phrase
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façon de parler1804
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1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/1 The direction of his re-phrasings of amendments was a direction of accommodation of differences.
1929 S. J. Case Exper. Supernatural in Early Christian Times ix. 317 Had the intellectual ideals of the older Greek thinkers prevailed, an extensive rephrasing of current religious notions would have been necessary.
1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 98 The second major objective is to develop a man-machine dialoguing capability which will permit real time rephrasing of input queries.
1996 E. Lovelace Salt xii. 231 Sonan..would begin the rephrasing of what he had already said, and when he was in full flow of his adjusted statement the future prime minister would begin his own speech.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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