Acervatio

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Departing from the normal syntax of a series to increase its effect. rhetoric, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin acervātiō (“heaping up”), from acervō (“heap up”) + -ātiō. Doublet of acervation.

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