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Definition of Asyndeton
1. Noun. The omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used.
Definition of Asyndeton
1. n. A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.
Definition of Asyndeton
1. Noun. (rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asyndeton
1. the omission of certain conjunctions [n -TA or -TONS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asyndeton
Literary usage of Asyndeton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A College Manual of Rhetoric by Charles Sears Baldwin (1902)
"Examination will show here the rule that asyndeton occurs: (a) when the ...
In the following paragraph, which has asyndeton throughout, observe the effect ..."
2. A Second Latin Exercise Book with Hints for Higher Latin Prose Composition by John Barrow Allen (1904)
"Where asyndeton occurs in the case of two Verbs or other words, it is usually
the Adversative Conjunction (our ‘but' or ‘whereas') that is omitted. ..."
3. A Grammar of the New Testament Greek by Alexander Buttmann (1873)
"added by the copyists (as ovv, KOI often were also) to avoid the asyndeton
displeasing to a Greek ear ; this has been done times without number in John, ..."
4. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and by John Walker (1801)
"asyndeton and Polysyndeton, or Omission and Redundance of ... The learned Dr.
Ward says, that "the asyndeton leaves out the " connecting particles, ..."
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