Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, “A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.
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- noun The
repetition of the sameword in asentence with a differentmeaning .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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I am not of Paracelsus's mind, that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man without conjunction; yet cannot but wonder at the multitude of heads that do deny traduction, having no other arguments to confirm their belief than that rhetorical sentence and antimetathesis [I. 51] of Augustine, "creando infunditur, infundendo creatur."
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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Antimetathesis
An`ti*me*tath"e*sis\, n. NL., fr. Gr. ?. (Rhet.) An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
July 10, 2009