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Meaning of ENALLAGE

Pronunciation:  en'alujee

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')
 

ENALLAGE is a 8 letter word that starts with E.

 

 See Also: rhetorical device

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\E*nal"la*ge\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? an exchange, fr. ? to
exchange; ? in + ? to change.] (Gram.)
A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one
gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the
same word, for another.

 

 

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