Hendiadys

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

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What Wikipedia says

Hendiadys () is a figure of speech used for emphasis where a phrase and its qualifier is replaced by two phrases separated by the conjunction "and." For example, the phrase "by a long siege" may be converted to "by length of time and siege" (note how the adjective "long" becomes a noun: "length of time").

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