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Definition of Metonymies
1. metonymy [n] - See also: metonymy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metonymies
Literary usage of Metonymies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"ON THE INTERPRETATION OP THE metonymies OCCURRING IN THE SCRIPTURES. Nature of
a Metonymy. — 1. Metonymy of the cause. — 2. Metonymy of the effect. — 3. ..."
2. A compendious introduction to the study of the Bible, an analysis of 'An by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1862)
"On the Interpretation of the metonymies occurring in Scripture. A metonymy is a
trope, by which we substitute one appellation for another, as the cause for ..."
3. Philological Studies: With English Illustrations by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Ferdinand Becker (1857)
"As connected with logic, the metonymy has nothing remarkable. m As connected with
rhetoric or taste, some of the metonymies, as, for example, the use of the ..."
4. A System of Oratory Delivered in a Course of Lectures Publicly Read at by John Ward (1759)
"However, metonymies are very ... is true alfo of this trope ; that fome metonymies
even in common ... of metonymies, which are commonly ..."
5. Rhetoric by Erastus Otis Haven (1872)
"metonymies.—A Metonymy is a trope in which a word is used to express a ...
Both words are metonymies. "Always respect old age"—a metonymy for aged people. ..."
6. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"However, metonymies enrich a discourse with an agreeable variety, ... And some
metonymies, in common discourse, are more frequently made use of than the ..."
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