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Catachresis
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Meaning of
'Catachresis'
(Webster Dictionary)
1 .
Catachresis
[
n.
]
- A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
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cat o' nine tails
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