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syllepsis
[ si-lep-sis ]
noun
- the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing. Compare zeugma.
syllepsis
/ sɪˈlɛpsɪs /
noun
- (in grammar or rhetoric) the use of a single sentence construction in which a verb, adjective, etc is made to cover two syntactical functions, as the verb form have in she and they have promised to come
- another word for zeugma
Derived Forms
- sylˈleptic, adjective
- sylˈleptically, adverb
Other Words From
- syl·lep·tic [si-, lep, -tik], adjective
- syl·lepti·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of syllepsis1
Word History and Origins
Origin of syllepsis1
Example Sentences
For example: Here’s an explanation of the rhetorical term syllepsis: “the use of a word that relates to, qualifies, or governs two or more other words but has a different meaning in relation to each.”
Now, for the first time at the apex of the living pyramid, it is Man and Nature, but Man himself is a syllepsis, a compendium of Nature—the Microcosm!
For a Creed is or ought to be a syllepsis of those primary fundamental truths that are, as it were, the starting-post, from which the Christian must commence his progression.
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