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Catachresis
Webster's Dictionary
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(n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Catachresis'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/catachresis.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Catachresis'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/catachresis.html. 1828.
