Thesaurus: metalepsis
The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
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Definitions
- n. The word/continuation">continuation of a word/trope">trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
- n. substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
- The word/continuation">continuation of a word/trope">trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
- The word/continuation">continuation of a word/trope">trope in one word through a succession ofsignifications, or the union of two or more tropes of a differentkind in one word.
- n substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another