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Word of the Day 05/05/18 Phraseology

Phraseology (noun)
phraseology [frey-zee-ol-uh-jee]


noun
1. manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
2. expressions; phrases: obscure phraseology.

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1. See diction.

Origin: 1655-65; < New Greek phraseología (erroneously for *phrasiología), coined by German humanist Michael Neander (1525-95); see phrase, -o-, -logy

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