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Anacoluthia

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Want of grammatical sequence or coherence; the passing from one construction to another in the same sentence. For examples, see anacoluthon. Also spelled anakoluthia and anakolouthia.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A syntactic construction in which an element is followed by another that does not agree properly
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  • noun. an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
  • Word Usage
    "To be fully engaged emotionally requires celebrating what the Stoic philosophers called anacoluthia—the mutual entailment of the virtues."
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