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Metalepsis

Metalepsis Meaning & Definition
Metalepsis Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Metalepsis?

[n] substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

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Metalepsis In Webster's Dictionary

\Met`a*lep"sis\, n.; pl. {Metalepses}. [L., fr. Gr. ? participation, alteration, fr. ? to partake, to take in exchange; ? beyond + ? to take.] (Rhet.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

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