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| 1. | [ noun ] (rhetoric) any artificially elegant style of language | |
| Related terms: | expressive_style | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (writing) 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 | |
| Related terms: | prose | |
