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Definition of Aposiopesis
1. Noun. Breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations).
Definition of Aposiopesis
1. n. A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."
Definition of Aposiopesis
1. Noun. (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aposiopesis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aposiopesis
Literary usage of Aposiopesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"Application. He that catches at more than belongs to him, justly deserves to lose
what he has. aposiopesis. § 580. aposiopesis, from the Greek ..."
2. A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer, Gottlieb Lünemann, Edward Masson, Joseph Henry Thayer (1877)
"As an aposiopesis opa /tu; might also be regarded in Rev. xix. ... also a species
of aposiopesis. In unimpassioned style, Paul would have said : thanks be ..."
3. Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and by James Robert Boyd (1874)
"aposiopesis. Hyperbaton, or Transposition, is an arrangement of words for rhetorical
effect, different from that which grammar or logic would prescribe; ..."
4. Notes and dissertations principally on difficulties in the scriptures of the by Albert Henry Wratislaw (1863)
"And the aposiopesis is supplied from what follows; or it might be supplied ...
Or the aposiopesis might be filled up by " we are bound," as in Mark vii. 11. ..."
5. A Grammar of the New Testament Greek by Alexander Buttmann (1873)
"... uttered after the manner of an aposiopesis (no. 26 p. 396) and left incomplete:
Rev. xix. 10 ; xxii. 9. c) To the instances where an entire thought or a ..."
6. The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric, Adapted for Use in Colleges and by Henry Noble Day (1872)
"... aposiopesis and Sententiousness. 346. INVERSION is a figure in which the
arrangement of the parts of a sentence is changed from the usual syntactical ..."
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