Tralation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tralation is a noun meaning (obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
Meaning
(obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
Example Sentences
My Detector could not have chosen a better man for the proof of the facility of this work, than him, who, according to the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists, gelded himself, and made himself no man for it.
Word Forms
- tralations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trope, tropist, metaphorization, metatrope, ampliatio, metaphorics.
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