Enallage
//ɛˈnæləd͡ʒiː// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
- 2 a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial ‘we’ for ‘I’) wordnet
- 3 The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐναλλαγή (enallagḗ, “interchange, variation”).
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