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Definitions

catachresis

[kat-uh-kree-sis] / ˌkæt əˈkri sɪs /
NOUN
barbarism
Synonyms
STRONGEST
atrocity barbarity brutality cruelty inhumanity
STRONG
coarseness corruption impropriety localism malapropism misuse provincialism solecism vulgarism
WEAK
misusage primitive culture uncivilizedness vernacularism vernacularity
Antonyms
STRONGEST
kindness niceness
WEAK
praise
NOUN
misuse
Synonyms
STRONGEST
corruption exploitation harm maltreatment mistreatment prostitution squandering waste
STRONG
barbarism desecration dissipation ill-treatment injury malapropism misapplication perversion profanation solecism
WEAK
abusage cruel treatment misemployment misusage rough handling
Antonyms
STRONG
praise

Example Sentences

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The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria

You must listen to the definition of a catachresis:—'A catachresis is the boldest of any trope.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria

As to “twinn'd stones”—may it not be a bold catachresis for muscles, cockles, and other empty shells with hinges, which are truly twinned?

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.

From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The stone furze ditches are scarcely bolder instances of the catachresis than the stone tables of shittim-wood.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria

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