1. Noun
A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
2. Noun
a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial ‘we’ for ‘I’)
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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