Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar and rhetoric, wanting sequence; containing an anacoluthon: as, an anacoluthic clause or sentence. Also spelled
anakoluthic and anakolouthic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lacking grammatical sequence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an
anacoluthon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons
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Examples
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Nor did he follow strictly the laws of poetic rhythm in the use of the Kînah, or elegiac, verse, which had, moreover, an anacoluthic measure of its own.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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One is aware in him of an anacoluthic quality, as if his mind suddenly stopped leaping in one direction to begin jumping in a quite contrary direction.
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900
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Aspirates troubled him, so that for the most part he cast them away, and the syntax of his periods was often anacoluthic; but these matters were of no moment.
Demos George Gissing 1880
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I suppose that is English, but it is certainly anacoluthic, obscure, and viciously punctuated (after the British style, which can be destructive to both sense and grammar).
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