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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

annominatio

. See

Paronomasia; punning.

Alliteration.

[Obs.]

Tyrwhitt.

Noun.

[L. ad and nominatio, from nomino, to name, from nomen.]

A pun; the use of words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings; a paronomasy.

Alliteration, or the use of two or more words successively beginning with the same letter.