anapodota

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anapodota

  1. plural of anapodoton
    • 2001, Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, William Langland’s Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays, Routledge, →ISBN, page 217:
      Commentators on this psychoanalysis of grammar have adduced it as the uncanny reflex of certain poetic scenes or images built upon the anapodota of sexual loss, romantic frustration, and the end of amatory exchange.⁶⁹