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merismus
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (merismós, “a dividing”), derived from the Ancient Greek verb ?????? (meríz?, “to divide into parts”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m????zm?s/
Noun
merismus
- (rhetoric) A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.
Usage notes
The term was generally used around in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (It can be found used to describe both Shakespeare and Christian Reformation theologians by their contemporaries.) It then seems to have fallen into disuse, only being revived in the middle of the twentieth century.
References
- merismus, in Worldwide Words.com'
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merisms
English
Noun
merisms
- plural of merism
Anagrams
- Simmers, simmers
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