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What does euphuism mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
  2. An example of euphuism.
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The euphuism of the foregoing quotation will be readily detected.
With euphuism, antithesis and the use of balanced sentences came to stay.
Assamese follows Bengali in its accentuation, but the language has never been the toy of euphuism.
The influence of euphuism can be seen in the works of such writers as Robert Greene and William Shakespeare, both of whom imitated the style in some works and parodied it in others.
And so, though we cannot say that euphuism is verse, we can say that it partakes of the nature of verse.
With these general remarks we must leave the subject of euphuism.

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