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anacoluthia

American

[an-uh-kuh-loo-thee-uh] / ˌæn ə kəˈlu θi ə /

noun

Rhetoric.

lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, especially in a sentence.

anacoluthia British

/ ˌænəkəˈluːθɪə /

noun

rhetoric lack of grammatical sequence, esp within a single sentence

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Other Word Forms

anacoluthic adjective
anacoluthically adverb

Etymology

Origin of anacoluthia

1855–60; < Latin < Greek anakolouthía. See anacoluthon, -ia

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Anacoluthon, an-a-ko-lū′thon, n. want of sequence in the construction of a sentence, when the latter part does not grammatically correspond with the former: a sentence exhibiting an Anacoluthia, or the passing from one construction to another before the former is completed.

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