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phraseology

Phraseology, n.

Etymology: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. phraséologie.]

1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor.

2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. [R.]

Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for phraseology; he lists it under diction.

Where he writes about it:

Phrase and phraseology apply to words or combinations of words which are somewhat technical; as, in legal phraseology; in military phrase. — from diction