parembole

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρεμβολή (parembolḗ, “throwing in”).

Noun[edit]

parembole (plural paremboles)

  1. (rhetoric) A kind of rhetorical parenthesis. The insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period.
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