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!”
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