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paronomasia

noun as in pun

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Example Sentences

These figures may in some cases be a mere pictorial paronomasia, but the explanation above suggested is the more probable one.

The only grounds for this theory are the easiness of the Greek style and the paronomasia in iv.

Who now hath plumbed the depths of a contumelious paronomasia?

When the allusions are forgotten, such paronomasia naturally results in hopeless obscurity.

Reuss renders the paronomasia, "qu'il soit cach ou lch en Israel."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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