Crossword-Solution: HYPERBATON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hyperbaton | n. | A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." |
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| INVERSION of normal order of words, esp. for sake of emphasis | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
DNEIVI
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with HYPERBATON (5)
The use of _tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes_, in Latin oratory and poetry.
Now the figure hyperbaton is the means which is employed by the best writers to imitate these signs of natural emotion.
TANTO DIGNIS CONSVLE REBVS.= Note the separation of the epithets from the nouns, and the high level of diction produced by the hyperbaton.
Here comes a violent but effective hyperbaton or suspension, in which the action of the mind mimics that of the labourer-- surveys his lot, low but free from care; then by a sudden strong act throws it over the shoulder or tosses it away as a light matter.
HYPERBATON, h[=i]-per'ba-ton, _n._ (_rhet._) a figure by which words are transposed from their natural order.--_adj._ HYPERBAT'IC.--_adv._ HYPERBAT'ICALLY.