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Enallage

Enallage Meaning & Definition
Enallage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Enallage?

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

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See Also | rhetorical device

Enallage In Webster's Dictionary

\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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