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metalepsis

[ met-uh-lep-sis ]

noun

Rhetoric.
plural metalepses
  1. the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾±ð³Ùa·±ô±ð±èt¾±³¦ ³¾±ð³Ùa·±ô±ð±èt¾±Â·³¦²¹±ô adjective
  • ³¾±ð³Ùa·±ô±ð±èt¾±Â·³¦²¹±ô·ly adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of metalepsis1

1580–90; < Latin < Greek ³¾±ð³Ùá±ôŧ±è²õ¾±²õ, equivalent to meta- meta- + ±ôŧ±è-, variant stem of ±ô²¹³¾²úá²Ô±ð¾±²Ô to take + -sis -sis
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Example Sentences

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They say that, according to Jerome, this Tower of the flock was situated in the immediate neighbourhood of Bethlehem; that it is used here only by way of a metalepsis for Bethlehem, and that Bethlehem again designates the Davidic race; so that the passage agrees altogether with v.

From

In Greek, moreover, it is called Metalepsis, i.e.

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But the sence is much altered & the hearers conceit strangly entangled by the figure Metalepsis, which I call the farset, as when we had rather fetch a word a great way off then to vse one nerer hand to expresse the matter aswel & plainer.

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Thus is spoken by the figure of farre-set Metalepsis.

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