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Definition of Polysyndetons
1. polysyndeton [n] - See also: polysyndeton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polysyndetons
Literary usage of Polysyndetons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Discourse: A Rhetoric for High Schools and Colleges by Arnold Tompkins (1897)
"The following polysyndetons from "The Courtship of Miles Standish " are neat
illustrations of this figure: — " Was it for this I have loved, and waited, ..."
2. Hermes: : Zeitschrift Fuür klassische Philologie (1905)
"Aus den letzten Stellen ist auch ersichtlich, daß Ovid im Gebrauche des polysyndetons
nicht so streng war, wie man glaubt. ..."
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