CHIASMUS


Meaning of CHIASMUS in English

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek chiasmos, from chiazein to mark with a chi Date: 1871 an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go )

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