Definition of hypallage Hypallage

hy•pal•la•ge

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What does hypallage mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: hypallages

hypallage - reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • hypallage (n.)
    A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • hypallage
    hi-pal′a-jē, n. (rhet.) a figure in which the relations of things in a sentence are mutually interchanged, but without obscuring the sense. [Fr.,—L.,—Gr. hypallassein, to interchange—hypo, under, alassein, to change.]

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