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antimetaboles

antimetaboles is the plural of antimetabole.

Meaning of antimetabole

Noun

antimetabole (countable and uncountable, plural antimetaboles)

  1. (rhetoric) The technique of repeating a phrase while reversing the order of certain elements or its grammatical structure, as a form of juxtaposition.
    • Antimetabole at effect will strain,
      And words and terms revers'd employ again.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Antimetabole.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 90

Questions about antimetaboles

What is antimetaboles the plural of?
Antimetaboles is the plural of antimetabole.

Words near antimetaboles in the dictionary

  1. antimesons
  2. antimessage
  3. antimessages
  4. antimessianic
  5. antimetabole
  6. antimetaboles
  7. antimetabolic
  8. antimetabolite
  9. antimetabolites
  10. antimetalloproteinase
  11. antimetamorphic

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