"paronomasy" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Compare French paronomasie.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "a 1637, Ben Jonson, Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter, published posthumously (1640)",
          "text": "Marry, we must not play or riot too much with them, as in paronomasies."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Language Quarterly, volumes 6-10, page 34:",
          "text": "Unless, by sheer coincidence, the target language contains a similar word pair, also similar in meaning, the effect of the paronomasy must be lost in the translation.",
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          "ref": "1974, Michael West, “Scatology and Eschatology: The Heroic Dimensions of Thoreau's Wordplay”, in Publications of the Modern Language Association of, JSTOR:",
          "text": "Sanctioning etymological speculation, Coleridge urged that his readers be alert to \"the equivocal or double meaning of a word,\" and went so far as to contemplate writing an Apology for Paronomasy, alias Punning",
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