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Antonyms for catachresis
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kat-uh-kree-sis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌkæt əˈkri sɪs |
Definition of catachresis
Origin :- 1580s, from Latin catachresis, from Greek katakhresis "misuse" (of a word), from katakhresthai "to misuse," from kata- "down" (here with a sense of "perversion;" see cata-) + khresthai "to use" (see hortatory). Related: Catachrestic; catachrestical; catachrestically.
- As in misuse : noun abuse; wrong application
- As in barbarism : noun crudity, savagery, especially in speech
- You must listen to the definition of a catachresis:—'A catachresis is the boldest of any trope.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- It is a sort of quaint alteration or catachresis of Possunt quia posse videntur.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 » by George Saintsbury
- It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court.
- Extract from : « The Apostles » by Ernest Renan
- The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Life is attributed to plants, only by a species of metaphor or catachresis.
- Extract from : « A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 7 (of 10) » by Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
- And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 » by Various
- No expression so terse and yet so striking could dispense with the classicism and the catachresis of "stoically."
- Extract from : « A History of English Literature » by George Saintsbury
- In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools.
- Extract from : « The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III » by Various
- In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.
- Extract from : « Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Synonyms for catachresis
- abusage
- atrocity
- barbarism
- barbarity
- brutality
- catachresis
- coarseness
- corruption
- cruel treatment
- cruelty
- desecration
- dissipation
- exploitation
- harm
- ill-treatment
- impropriety
- inhumanity
- injury
- localism
- malapropism
- maltreatment
- misapplication
- misemployment
- mistreatment
- misusage
- misuse
- perversion
- primitive culture
- profanation
- prostitution
- provincialism
- rough handling
- solecism
- squandering
- uncivilizedness
- vernacularism
- vernacularity
- vulgarism
- waste
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