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enallages

enallages is the plural of enallage.

Meaning of enallage

Noun

enallage (countable and uncountable, plural enallages)

  1. (rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
  2. (rhetoric) The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
    • And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation.1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars

Questions about enallages

What is enallages the plural of?
Enallages is the plural of enallage.

Words near enallages in the dictionary

  1. enaliosaurian
  2. enaliosaurians
  3. enaliosaurs
  4. enallachrome
  5. enallage
  6. enallages
  7. enallene
  8. enallenes
  9. enals
  10. enaluron
  11. enalutamide

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