Metalepsis

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  • n. The metonymical substitution of one word by another which is itself a metonym.
  • n. The result of a series of metaphors
  • n. The unexpressed serial application of tropes of substitution.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rhetorical figure or trope assumed by some ancient writers, and supposed to consist in substituting a word for a synonym or homonym. which latter is at the same time understood in a metaphorical or transferred sense: as, “sable caverns” for “black caverns,” this in its turn meaning “dark or gloomy caverns.”
  • n. In chem., same as metalepsy.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    metonymy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    transumptio   
     
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