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Definition of Hypallage
1. Noun. Reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in 'her beauty's face').
Definition of Hypallage
1. n. A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.
Definition of Hypallage
1. Noun. (rhetoric grammar) A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as literary device. ¹
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Definition of Hypallage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypallage
Literary usage of Hypallage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"—Lat. hypallage, 'a rhetorical figure, by which the relations of things seem to
be mutually interchanged; as, dare classibus ..."
2. The Might and Mirth of Literature: A Treatise on Figurative Language. In by John Walker Vilant Macbeth (1876)
"hypallage. — Hysteron-proteron, or Putting the Cart before the Horse. XXI.
Polysyndeton is our next figure, or Superfluity of Ands. All birds have two wings ..."
3. Commentary Upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans by Jean Calvin (1844)
"... thou hast the literal circumcision. when words - , , -11' 27. The letter and
circumcision. By the figure hypallage, are under- for circumcision literal. ..."
4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Crawford Howell Toy (1899)
"hypallage) : crushes those whom it hates, but this is hardly allowable— it is
better to change the text. — The couplet may refer to the ruin brought by the ..."
5. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1828)
"... may be an hypallage, signifying, " though ye are at present established in
the truth. ... hypallage ..."
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