Catachresis
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catachresis-182-9941283
title:
Catachresis
text:
Catachresis, originally meaning a semantic misuse or error—e.g., using "militate" for "mitigate", "chronic" for "severe", "travesty" for "tragedy", "anachronism" for "anomaly", "alibi" for "excuse", etc.—is also the name given to many different types of figures of speech in which a word or phrase is being applied in a way that significantly departs from conventional usage.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Rhetorical misuse of a term
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catachresis
date created:
2002-09-26T14:01:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T07:46:33Z
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