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Meaning of hysteron proteron | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A figure of speech in which a phrase that should come last is put first; hysterology.
    rhetoric
  2. An inversion or reversal of the natural order of things.

Equivalents

Examples

“"He is well and lives" is a hysteron proteron.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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