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anastrophes

anastrophes is the plural of anastrophe.

Meaning of anastrophe

Noun

anastrophe (countable and uncountable, plural anastrophes)

  1. (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
    • Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change,
      Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Anastrophe.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 43

Questions about anastrophes

What is anastrophes the plural of?
Anastrophes is the plural of anastrophe.

Words near anastrophes in the dictionary

  1. Anastoses
  2. anastral
  3. anastrazole
  4. anastrephin
  5. anastrophe
  6. anastrophes
  7. anastrophic
  8. anastrozole
  9. anastylosis
  10. anastylotic
  11. Anasuya

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