Associations to the word «Enallage»

Wiktionary

ENALLAGE, noun. (uncountable) (rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
ENALLAGE, noun. (uncountable) (rhetoric) The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
ENALLAGE, noun. (rhetoric) (countable) An application of enallage.

Dictionary definition

ENALLAGE, noun. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates