enallage
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial ‘we’ for ‘I’)Type of rhetorical device
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
E·nal′la·ge noun
Origin: L., fr. Gr. … an exchange, fr. … to exchange; … in + … to change.
Grammar A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54