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anapodota

anapodota

English

Noun

anapodota

  1. plural of anapodoton
    • 2001: Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, William Langland’s Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays, page 217 (Routledge; ISBN 9780815328049)
      Commentators on this psychoanalysis of grammar have adduced it as the uncanny reflex of certain poetic scenes or images built upon the anapodota of sexual loss, romantic frustration, and the end of amatory exchange.⁶⁹