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Webster 1913 Edition
Anastrophe
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A-nas′tro-phe
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to turn up or back;
ἀνά
+ [GREEK] to turn.] (Rhet. & Gram.)
An inversion of the natural order of words;
as,
. echoed the hills
, for, the hills echoed
Webster 1828 Edition
Anastrophe
ANAS'TROPHE
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Anastrophe
Anastrophe
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German
Noun
Anastrophe f (genitive Anastrophe, plural Anastrophen)
Synonyms
anastrophe
anastrophe
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English
Noun
anastrophe (plural anastrophes)
- (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
Synonyms
Translations
switching in the syntactical order of words
See also
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