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metalepsis

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10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aeeilmpsstStarts with MEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

Word origin

From Latin metalēpsis, from Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis, “succession”), from Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after”) and λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).

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