enallage

American  

[en-al-uh-jee] / ɛnˈæl ə dʒi /

noun

Rhetoric.

1. the use of one grammatical form in place of another, as the plural for the singular in the editorial use of we.

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Etymology

Origin of enallage

1575–85; < Late Latin < Greek enallagḗ an interchange, derivative from base of enalláttein to give in exchange; cf. en- ², agio

Example Sentences

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enallage

Boccaccio constantly uses this irregular form of enallage, especially in dialogue.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

This mode of expression may be referred to the figure enallage, in which one word or one modification is used for an other.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Le Moyne thinks that we need have no difficulty in assuming such an enallage.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Several interpreters assume an enallage generis לה = לו, "and thus shall they call him."

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg