Enallage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɛˈnæləd͡ʒiː/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Enallage is a noun meaning (rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
Meaning
(rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
More Meanings
- (rhetoric) The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- enallages
- enallagy
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include recast, transformation, recasting, traduction, exaptation, re-etymologization.
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