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Webster 1913 Edition

Antimetabole

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Anˊti-me-tab′o-le

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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]
(Rhet.)
A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

Webster 1828 Edition

Antimetabole

ANTIMETAB'OLE

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Noun.
antimetab'oly. [Gr. against, and mutation.]
In rhetoric, a setting of two things in opposition to each other; as, an honorable action may be attended with labor, but the labor is soon past, and the honor is immortal.

Definition 2024

antimetábole

antimetábole

See also: antimetabole

Portuguese

Noun

antimetábole f (plural antimetáboles)

  1. (rhetoric) antimetabole (the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order)

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