Crossword-Solution: PARONOMASIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Paronomasia | n. | A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PARONOMASIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "An apothecary should never be out of spirits." | 1 answer |
| A pun is an example of ___ | 1 answer |
| Art of punning | 1 answer |
| MME. DEFARGE, KNITWIT | 1 answer |
| PLAY upon words which involves the placing together of words of similar sound | 1 answer |
| Word play | 2 answers |
| equivocalness | 9 answers |
| Pun | 10 answers |
| Wordplay | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARONOMASIA (5)
Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,[FN#433] not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes.
YOU see this pebble-stone? It’s a thing I bought Of a bit of a chit of a boy i’ the mid o’ the day— I like to dock the smaller parts-o’-speech, As we curtail the already cur-tail’d cur (You catch the paronomasia, play ’po’ words?) Did, rather, i’ the pre-Landseerian days.
Euen the title--which, as is customarie with great personages, is the best part of your Majesties book--is marred by an unseemlie concession to paronomasia.
Few people knew she died, but oh, The difference to her! _Newton Mackintosh._ THE COCK AND THE BULL You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day-- I like to dock the smaller parts-o'-speech, As we curtail the already cur-tailed cur (You catch the paronomasia, play 'po' words?) Did, rather, i' the pre-Landseerian days.
The paronomasia exhibited in the Latin, "Tu es _Petrus_, et super hanc _petram_," also appears both in the Greek and the Syriac.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1960–2015).