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hendiadyses

hendiadyses is the plural of hendiadys.

Meaning of hendiadys

Noun

hendiadys (plural hendiadyses)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.
    • Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain.1984, Wilfred G. E. Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 327

Questions about hendiadyses

What is hendiadyses the plural of?
Hendiadyses is the plural of hendiadys.

Words near hendiadyses in the dictionary

  1. Hendersons
  2. Hendersonville
  3. Hendha
  4. hendiadic
  5. hendiadys
  6. hendiadyses
  7. hendiadytic
  8. hendiatris
  9. hendibeh
  10. hendigo
  11. hending

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