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metalepsis |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Metalepsis \Met`a*lep"sis\, n.; pl {Metalepses}. [L., fr Gr ? participation, alteration, fr ? to partake, to take in exchange; ? beyond + ? to take.] (Rhet.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: metalepsis n : substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
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