"Euphemistic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (into the grace of God), an euphemistic and more polite term than "mta"he died. The latter term is avoided by the Founder of Chnstianity; and our Spiritualists now say "passed away to a higher life," a phrase embodying a theory which, to say the least, is "not ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... Words: purist, purism, euphuism, euphuist, euphuistic, euphuize, euphemism, euphemistic, euphemize, charism, locution, provincial, provincialism, localism, solecism, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... tausend!} or {potz tausend!}) According to "Grimm's Wrterbuch," {der tausend} stands for {der Tausendknstige} (the One with thousand tricks), a euphemistic designation of the devil, analog. to English; deuce! Trans., ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel |
