OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 26000

hendiadys

/hɛnˈdaɪ.ədɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
endíadis • hendíadis
A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.
Each illustrates a different facet of verbal hendiadys in English.
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 closel…
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