ENALLAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enallage mean? 

• ENALLAGE (noun)
  The noun ENALLAGE has 1 sense:

1. a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial 'we' for 'I')

  Familiarity information: ENALLAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENALLAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial 'we' for 'I')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("enallage" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))