Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
parembole .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
parembole .
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- noun rhetoric
parembole
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek παρέμπτωσις (paremptōsis, "coming in beside"); παρεν- (paren-, “beside”) + πτῶσις (ptōsis, “falling”)
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