Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, the insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period, or that which is inserted; an explanatory phrase having a closer connection with the context than a parenthesis. Also called
paremptosis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A kind of parenthesis.
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- noun rhetoric A kind of
rhetorical parenthesis . The insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period.
Etymologies
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From the Ancient Greek παρά (para, "beside"), plus ἐμβολή (embolē, "throwing in").
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