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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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