Meaning of hendiadys | Babel Free

Definitions

A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.

rhetoric

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Examples

“Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain.”

“Each illustrates a different facet of verbal hendiadys in English.”

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