Meanings
nounparaphrast (plural paraphrasts)
plural paraphrasts
- rareSomeone who paraphrases.
The Chaldee Paraphraſt underſtood it more generally, and rendred it thus: The VVord of the Lord abhorred them, as he did Sodom and Gomorrah.
1680 September 12 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Gilbert Burnet, A Sermon Preached before the Right-honourable the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, at Bow-Church, September 2. 1680. being the Anniversary Fast for the Burning of London, London: […] Richard Chiswel, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 5
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French paraphraste
- paraphrastesomeone who paraphrases
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APA
paraphrast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paraphrast
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