Meaning

The use of a preexisting word in a new context..

Definitions by Sense

1. The use of a preexisting word in a new context.
2. The connotations that a word carries due to its historical meaning or meanings.

Example Sentences

Paleonymy stands in Takeuchi's text as a device to think such older words or concepts anew, therebv allowing them to effectively intervene in critical discourse.

A paleonymy proceeds by continuing to use an old, traditional name while making the name different from what it always was, because one or more of the predicates associated with that name is being rethought and reworked.

In his introduction, he begins with the problem of paleonymy, the summoning up of old names in new circumstances, writing self-consciously about the form in which his text will present itself.

I use the word "humanities," as the expression "English department," with a keen sense of the value of paleonymy.

It is my belief that unless the paleonymy of the language is felt in some rough historical or etymological way, the translator is unequal to her task.

I should not have used this phrase because the word "violence" has a kind of paleonymy that suggests bad stuff.

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• paleonymies

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When Should You Use Paleonymy?

Use paleonymy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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