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ECPHONESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ecphonesis mean?
• ECPHONESIS (noun)
The noun ECPHONESIS has 1 sense:
1. an exclamatory rhetorical device
Familiarity information: ECPHONESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exclamatory rhetorical device
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
ecphonesis; exclamation
Context example:
O tempore! O mores
Hypernyms ("ecphonesis" is a kind of...):
rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
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