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A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed."

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  1. n. A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed."
  2. n. word/reversal">reversal of word/normal">normal word order (as in ‘cheese I love’)
  3. A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.
  4. A figurative construction, changing or inverting the naturalorder of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hillsechoed."With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.
  5. n word/reversal">reversal of word/normal">normal word order (as in `cheese I love')