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"ref": "1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon",
"text": "[…] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.",
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"(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence."
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anàstrofe"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒裝"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "dàozhuāng",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒装"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒裝句"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "dàozhuāngjù",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anastrophe"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anastrofí",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αναστροφή"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anastróf"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anastrofe"
},
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"alt": "とうち",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tōchi",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒置"
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"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metateza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "przekładnia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
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"masculine"
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anástrofe"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "anastrófa",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "анастро́фа"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "анастро́фа"
},
{
"code": "sh",
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"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anástrofe"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "kabaligtaran"
}
]
}
],
"word": "anastrophe"
}
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}
],
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{
"ref": "1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon",
"text": "[…] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence."
],
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"rhetoric",
"rhetoric"
]
],
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"(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence."
],
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},
{
"word": "hyperbaton"
}
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anàstrofe"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒裝"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàozhuāng",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒装"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒裝句"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàozhuāngjù",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒装句"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anastrophe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anastrophe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Inversion"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anastrofí",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αναστροφή"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anastróf"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anastrofe"
},
{
"alt": "とうち",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tōchi",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒置"
},
{
"alt": "とうちほう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tōchihō",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "倒置法"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "inwersja"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metateza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "przekładnia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "przestawnia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "szyk przestawny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anástrofe"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "anastrófa",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "анастро́фа"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "анастро́фа"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "anastrófa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anástrofe"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "switching in the syntactical order of words",
"word": "kabaligtaran"
}
],
"word": "anastrophe"
}
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