Crossword-Solution: ANACOLUTHON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anacoluthon | n. | A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ANACOLUTHON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Syntactical incoherence | 1 answer |
| WORDS lacking grammatical sequence | 1 answer |
| a sentence or construction lacking grammatical sequence | 1 answer |
| discontinuity | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANACOLUTHON (5)
Here are the Aposiopaesian Auxiliaries, and Dithyramb that killed Punctuation in open fight; Parenthesis the giant and champion of the host, and Anacoluthon that never learned to read or write but is very handy with his sword; and Metathesis and Hendiadys, two Greeks.
The use of _tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes_, in Latin oratory and poetry.
His moral life is one vast anacoluthon in which the final term is left out that might have given sense to the whole, one vast ellipsis in which custom seems to bridge the chasm left between ideas.
Some have thought that they are detached phrases from the letter which Kent is reading: but Kent has just implied by his address to the sun that he has no light to read the letter by.[278] It has also been suggested that the anacoluthon is meant to represent Kent's sleepiness, which prevents him from finishing the sentence, and induces him to dismiss his thoughts and yield to his drowsiness.
Weiffenbach is obliged to perform two acts of violence on the sentence: (1) He supposes that there is an anacoluthon, and that the [Greek: _kai hosa pote_] here is answered by the words [Greek: _ei_ de pou _kai_ parêkolouthêkôs], which occur several lines below.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1993).