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The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice. quotations examples
But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it -- would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is.
1870, Mark Twain, chapter 46, in Life on the Mississippi, archived from the original on 11 August 2014
(music) The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others. examples