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Definition of Enallages
1. enallage [n] - See also: enallage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enallages
Literary usage of Enallages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Sport, zeal, contents, are plain enallages; dyes in is dyes with, tinges, imbues
with; presents is represents, acts, performs; the allusion in the last two ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1790)
"The collective noun«, which are fo frequent in Hebrew, he would always render
plurally, except when they are preceded by 7^. He would correct the enallages ..."
3. A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer, Gottlieb Lünemann, Edward Masson, Joseph Henry Thayer (1877)
"... and want of regularity in syntax, (which, therefore, was not treated systematically
but only under the head g of enallages and solecisms).1 The natural ..."
4. The Prophets of Israel and Their Place in History to the Close of the Eighth by William Robertson Smith (1882)
"145), we may read D3"ip (many supposed enallages (ire probably corruptions of
text, and 'JB>o in old writing can as well be plural as singular). ..."
5. British Reformers by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Publication (1842)
"... a doctrine that teaches, instructs, and leads a man as well unto the knowledge
of himself as of God. So St. Paul disputes by admirable enallages* and ..."
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