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Definition of Hypozeuxis
1. Noun. Use of a series of parallel clauses (as in 'I came, I saw, I conquered').
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypozeuxis
Literary usage of Hypozeuxis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy by George Gascoigne, William Webbe, James, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, Gabriel Harvey (1811)
"But if this supplie be made to sundrie clauses, or to one clause suti- drie times
iterated, and by seuerall words, so as euery clause hath hypozeuxis. his ..."
2. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"Supply ; hypozeuxis, or the Substitute; Aposiopesis, or the Figure of Silence,
otherwise called the Figure of Interruption ; and Prolepsis, ..."
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