"Metalepses" is a word in ENGLISH
metalepses
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Definition:
of Metalepsis
Few words of positivity
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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metalepsis
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The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more …
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Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.
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Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy.
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Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.
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