hendiadys
Sign in to saveHendiadys () is a figure of speech used for emphasis—"The substitution of a conjunction for a subordination". The basic idea is to use two words linked by the conjunction "and" instead of the one modifying the other.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- In classical and Biblical literature
- As linguistic terminology in describing Turkic languages
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Hendiadys () is a figure of speech used for emphasis—"The substitution of a conjunction for a subordination". The basic idea is to use two words linked by the conjunction "and" instead of the one modifying the other.
Hendiadys in English is also known as two for one and figure of twins. Although the underlying phrase is ', the only other forms occasionally found in English are hendiaduo and hendiaduous, the latter of which the 17th-century English Biblical commentator Matthew Poole used in his commentary on , , and .
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