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n. - 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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  • I’d call it metalepsis — the article made for the firm, and the firm for the people running it.
  • Yes - you discovered the intertextual echoes I so carefully manufactured -- and so my theory of metalepsis is proved to be true!
  • But everyone presently apprehends that this expression is figurative, the abstract being put for the concrete by a metalepsis, and charity is said to do that which a man...
  • But I readily endure a catachrestic metalepsis, when it is evident concerning a thing, although it is my wish that our enunciations were always the best accommodated to...
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