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hypallages

hypallages is the plural of hypallage.

Meaning of hypallage

Noun

hypallage (countable and uncountable, plural hypallages)

  1. (rhetoric, uncountable) The use of a grammatical modifier which syntactically modifies an item other than the one it belongs to semantically, generating a connection between the two.
  2. (countable, rhetoric) A phrase in which this occurs.

Questions about hypallages

What is hypallages the plural of?
Hypallages is the plural of hypallage.

Words near hypallages in the dictionary

  1. hypalgia
  2. hypalgias
  3. hypalgic
  4. hypallactic
  5. hypallage
  6. hypallages
  7. Hypalon
  8. hypandria
  9. hypandrial
  10. hypandrium
  11. hypanthia

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