˜yÐÄvlog

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enallage

[ en-al-uh-jee ]

noun

Rhetoric.
  1. the use of one grammatical form in place of another, as the plural for the singular in the editorial use of we.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of enallage1

1575–85; < Late Latin < Greek ±ð²Ô²¹±ô±ô²¹²µá¸— an interchange, derivative from base of ±ð²Ô²¹±ô±ôá³Ù³Ù±ð¾±²Ô to give in exchange; en- 2, agio
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Example Sentences

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One favorite device, for instance, is called “enallage,†in which an adjective is pointedly displaced from the noun it should, logically, modify.

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Perhaps Mr. Held sought to employ poetical enallage, but even so, the adjective does not correspond with "slowly"; besides, the use of enallage in prose is at best highly questionable.

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Le Moyne thinks that we need have no difficulty in assuming such an enallage.

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Boccaccio constantly uses this irregular form of enallage, especially in dialogue.

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And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation.

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