Hypotaxis

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms
catataxis

Etymology

From hypo- + taxis.

Related phrases

para-hypotaxis

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