About The Word Catachresis
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Catachresis
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What's The Definition Of Catachresis?
[n] strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
Synonyms | Synonyms for Catachresis: Related Terms | Find terms related to Catachresis: See Also | rhetorical device Catachresis In Webster's Dictionary \Cat`a*chre"sis\, n. [L. fr. Gr. ? misuse, fr. ? to
misuse; kata` against + ? to use.] (Rhet.)
A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by
which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, ``To
take arms against a sea of troubles''. --Shak. ``Her voice
was but the shadow of a sound.'' --Young.
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