anacoluthon
noun
a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as
anacolutha
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pluralof anacoluthon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It is in writers of great mental vivacity—more taken up with the thought than with the mode of its expression—that we may expect to find anacolutha most frequently.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
After he had read a few words, he would bang the book down on the table and continue pouring forth inextricable anacolutha.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
Neither is the same precision required in Greek as in Latin or English, nor in earlier Greek as in later; there was nothing shocking to the contemporary of Thucydides and Plato in anacolutha and repetitions.
From Charmides by Benjamin Jowett
