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metalepsis
[ met-uh-lep-sis ]
noun
- the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
Other Words From
- meta·leptic meta·lepti·cal adjective
- meta·lepti·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of metalepsis1
Example Sentences
Jewelry brand Metalepsis Projects is co-hosting a pop-up sale this weekend with fashion and accessory labels Cosette, Fuggiamo, Estilo Collective and Starling.
They say that, according to Jerome, this Tower of the flock was situated in the immediate neighbourhood of Bethlehem; that it is used here only by way of a metalepsis for Bethlehem, and that Bethlehem again designates the Davidic race; so that the passage agrees altogether with v.
In Greek, moreover, it is called Metalepsis, i.e.
But the sence is much altered & the hearers conceit strangly entangled by the figure Metalepsis, which I call the farset, as when we had rather fetch a word a great way off then to vse one nerer hand to expresse the matter aswel & plainer.
Thus is spoken by the figure of farre-set Metalepsis.
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