Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, the use of one case for another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) The putting of one case for another.
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- noun grammar, rhetoric Substitution of one grammatical case for another.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἀντίπτωσις.
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