anacoluthon
a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as It makes me so—I just get angry.
an instance of anacoluthia.
Origin of anacoluthon
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How to use anacoluthon in a sentence
A breakdown like this—an anacoluthon, as the grammarians call it—is nothing strange in Paul's style.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians | G. G. FindlayIt contains another anacoluthon (or incoherence of language), due to the surge of feeling remarked in ver.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians | G. G. FindlayThe anacoluthon in Mk iv, 31, is avoided by Matthew and Luke.
Sources of the Synoptic Gospels | Carl S. Pattonanacoluthon, a want of grammatical and logical sequence in the structure of a sentence.
British Dictionary definitions for anacoluthon
/ (ˌænəkəˈluːθɒn) /
rhetoric a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia
Origin of anacoluthon
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