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

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Usage examples (6)
  • Ans. That huper pantos, “for every one,” is here used for huper pantōn, “for all,” by an enallage of the number, is by all acknowledged.
  • In his 1908 magnum pompous Grammar as a Science, B.F. Sisk defines enallage as
  • Second, perhaps this example is not an error at all, but rather a poetic deviation from standard diction in order to enhance the impact of the claim -- a trick known as...
  • I will further spare four out of the seven figures of less note: emphasis, enallage, and the hysteron proteron you must have; because emphasis graces Irish diction,...
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