Catachresis

 

 

 

Catachresis

 

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Catachresis

 

Meaning of term catachresis

Catachresis (n.) 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.

 

Source: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/v003/wb1913_c.html

Author : OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

 

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