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Definition of Asyndeta
1. asyndeton [n] - See also: asyndeton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asyndeta
Literary usage of Asyndeta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influence of the Second Sophistic on the Style of the Sermons of St by James Marshall Campbell (1922)
"... Of the larger combinations, one sermon contains an example of seventeen
successive asyndeta; one sermon, an example of fifteen successive ..."
2. A Greek grammar to the New Testament, and to the common or Hellenic diction by William Trollope (1842)
"Similar asyndeta are not wanting, however, in the other parts of the New Testament.
2. asyndeta may be resolved into four classes—conjunctive, disjunctive, ..."
3. Longinus On the Sublime: The Greek Text Edited After the Paris Manuscript by Longinus, Cassius Longinus, William Rhys Roberts, Arthur Sanders Way (1899)
"So he maintains throughout, though with continual variation, the essential
character of the Repetitions and asyndeta. In this way, with him, ..."
4. Theories of Style, with Especial Reference to Prose Composition; Essays by Lane Cooper (1907)
"And the same is true of asyndeta, eg " I came, I met, ... There is this especial
property also in asyndeta, that they make it possible to present an ..."
5. An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric: With Analysis, Notes and Appendices by Edward Meredith Cope (1867)
"Similarly asyndeta, with which the preceding may be classed, must be varied ...
While we are on the subject of asyndeta, he continues, again by way of note, ..."
6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society by Cambridge Philological Society (1902)
"The two asyndeta are separately justifiable : the second clause repeats in other
... For cumulated asyndeta in Pindar, see 01. i. 53, iii. 44, Isth. iv. ..."
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