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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: catachresis (0.00835 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to catachresis.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: catachresis
catachresis
n : strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as
`blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a
mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Catachresis
Catachresis
\Cat`a*chre"sis\, n. [L. fr. Gr. ? misuse, fr. ? to
misuse; kata` against + ? to use.] (Rhet.)
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.
[1913 Webster]
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