- enallage as a noun:
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enallage
noun
1 enallage
A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism. phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage†, catachresis†; metonymy [Gramm.], ... show more
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