CHIASMUS


Meaning of CHIASMUS in English

[chi.as.mus] n [NL, fr. Gk chiasmos, fr. chiazein to mark with a chi] (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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