| NOUN | communication | euphuism | any artificially elegant style of language |
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| communication | euphuism | an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period |
| Meaning | Any artificially elegant style of language. | |
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| Narrower | Gongorism | An affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora |
| Broader | expressive style, style | A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Broader | prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse |