Crossword-Solution: APOSIOPESIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aposiopesis | n. | A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here." |
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| "She had a heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad . . . " | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APOSIOPESIS (5)
Cowes, who also stamped on the boards.) Yes, but--Richard used the device of aposiopesis; Daniel Dabbs took it for a humorous effect and began a roar, which was summarily interdicted.
The old church, he told me, was built in the middle of the seventeenth century; this new one, he agreed, might have been constructed on more ambitious lines, “but nowadays——” and he broke off, with eloquent aposiopesis.
Carmyle, becoming articulate, and allowed an impressive aposiopesis to take the place of the rest of the speech.
The use of _tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes_, in Latin oratory and poetry.
Whereas I--!! Well, we will let the aposiopesis stand." "Of course," I sulkily observed, "if you have simply come to Fairhaven to make fun of me, I can only pity your limitations." He spoke in quite another voice.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1960).