Meanings
nounperiergia (uncountable)
- rhetoricuncountableThe 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.
2013, Matthew Leigh, From Polypragmon to Curiosus: Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour
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