style

Roget category 569

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#569. Style

noun

style, diction, phraseology, wording — manner, strain — composition — mode of expression, choice of words — mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer — command of language etc. (eloquence) 582 — authorship — la morgue litteraire [Fr.].

verb

express by words etc. 566 — write.

phrase

le style c'est de l'homme [Buffon]; style is the dress of thoughts" [Chesterfield]. Various Qualities of Style

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