anacoluthon

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Weiffenbach is obliged to perform two acts of violence on the sentence: (1) He supposes that there is an anacoluthon, and that the [Greek: kai hosa pote_] here is answered by the words [Greek: ei de pou kai parękolouthękôs], which occur several lines below.

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  1. noun An abrupt change within a sentence to a second construction inconsistent with the first, sometimes used for rhetorical effect; for example, I warned him that if he continues to drink, what will become of him?

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  • What we have is technically described as an anacoluthon, defined (eg by the OED) as 'a construction lacking grammatical sequence'.
  • Weiffenbach is obliged to perform two acts of violence on the sentence: (1) He supposes that there is an anacoluthon, and that the [Greek: kai hosa pote_] here is answered by the words [Greek: ei de pou kai parękolouthękôs], which occur several lines below. —  Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • Its introduction creates a sort of anacoluthon, and throws great stress on the negative 364 When Pharaoh's host was swallowed up by the Red Sea 367 paille légère = "chaff 373 ne que. —  Esther
  • [Footnote 118: In τοὺς δὲ there is an anacoluthon similar to the one in vs. 459] —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
  • The use of _tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes_, in Latin oratory and poetry. —  The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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  1. Late Latin, from Late Greek anakolouthon, inconsistency in logic, from Greek, neuter of anakolouthos, inconsistent : an-, not; see a-1 + akolouthos, following (a-, together; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + keleuthos, path).

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀνακόλουθον/βτ, neuter of ἀνακόλουθος, inconsequent (the Greek noun is ἀνακολουθία: see anacoluthia), from ἀν- privative + ἀκόλουθος, following, later English acolyte, q. v.
 

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