ENALLAGE

enallage

(noun) a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial ‘we’ for ‘I’)

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

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