| 单词 | catachresis |
| 释义 | catachresis (once / 176408 pages) n WORD FAMILY catachresis: catachrestic, catachrestical+/catachrestic: catachrestically USAGE EXAMPLESI think Catachresis was successful at that, and I’m trying to hone that in Epanalepsis. Forbes(Aug 06, 2014) As to “twinn'd stones”—may it not be a bold catachresis for muscles, cockles, and other empty shells with hinges, which are truly twinned? Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont a...(2010) In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools. Lodge, Henry Cabot, The Best of the World's Classics, V...(2010) n strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') Hyper rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
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