Euphuism [noun]

There is more than a touch of Euphuism in Stevenson; he was never insincere, but he was consciously fine.

Much euphuism, much studied grace of manner, much formal assertion of scholarship, mingling with his force of imagination.

It was not the matter of Euphues, however, so much as the style which made it famous (see Euphuism).

Euphuism owes to him its name and its diffusion in England; but not, although it is usually so stated, its birth.

Cynthia's Revels has the same defects, but is to some extent saved by its sharp raillery of euphuism.

But Raleigh's usual style differs very little from that of other men of his day, who kept clear at once of euphuism and burlesque.

So a handsome euphuism tries to save his fame from harsher epithets.

They fail because their authors have imagined that "Euphuism" is simply a highly artificial and "flowery" way of talking.

Few of the poems in the Anthology depict any ephemeral phase or fashion of opinion, like the Euphuism of the sixteenth century.

Everybody speaks Euphuism, though classical allusion alone is not essentially Euphuistic.