Word of the Day – Diallage

Diallage (noun) (rare) (rhetoric)

die-lij

A figure of speech by which arguments, after having been considered from various points of view, are all brought to bear on one point.

Early 18th century; earliest use found in Phillips’s New World of Words. From post-classical Latin diallage, denoting a figure of speech from ancient Greek διαλλαγή interchange from διαλλαγ-, aorist stem of διαλλάσσειν to interchange from δια- + ἀλλάσσειν to change, exchange.

Example sentences

“his point is the diallage of the entire discussion!”