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/ˌpɛ.ɹiˈɜː.d͡ʒi.ə/ · noun
(rhetoric) The use of an excessively elaborate or elevated style to discuss a trivial matter; bombastic or laboured language..
The first place in which almost all of us encounter discourses of polypragmosyne, and latterly of periergia, is in the literature of fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens.
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Periergia means (rhetoric) The use of an excessively elaborate or elevated style to discuss a trivial matter; bombastic or laboured language..
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The first place in which almost all of us encounter discourses of polypragmosyne, and latterly of periergia, is in the literature of fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens.
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