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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Metalepsis

· Met·a·lep·sis · IPA
01 n. The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in o…
pl. Metalepses ((#))
  1. 1.
    The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.(Rhet.)