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catachresis
noun as in barbarism
noun as in misuse
Example Sentences
No expression so terse and yet so striking could dispense with the classicism and the catachresis of "stoically."
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools.
And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.
It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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