ENALLAGE
enallage
(noun) a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial âweâ for âIâ)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
enallage (countable and uncountable, plural enallages)
(rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
(rhetoric) The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
Hyponyms
• alleotheta, allotheta, alleosis;
Source: Wiktionary
E*nal"la*ge, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gram.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition