Meaning Of The Word Hypallage

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hypallage in American English
noun: the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty”

hypallage in British English
noun: a figure of speech in which the natural relations of two words in a statement are interchanged, as in the fire spread the wind

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