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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Hysteron proteron

· Hys·te·ron prot·e·ron · IPA
01 A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, “he is well and lives.”
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    A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, “he is well and lives.”(Rhet.)