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What does euphuistic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to euphuism.
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He is euphuistic in his style, wise in his advice to his readers, and a great admirer of his own country.
Greene's career began in 1583 when he completed an MA at Oxford and published Mamilia, a courtesy book for Elizabethan women, written in the euphuistic style.
It might just as well be said that Shakespeare's lords and ladies were not euphuistic enough.
Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar euphuistic sentence of court parlance.
But his language has certainly the merit of doing more justice to his subject than that of his euphuistic predecessors.
Men of letters admired the euphuistic phrases and despised their author.

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