synchesis

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Noun

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synchesis (countable and uncountable, plural syncheses)

  1. Alternative form of synchysis
    • 1996, William Michael Purcell, Ars Poetriae, page 28:
      Similar to tmesis is synchesis or the total jumbling of word order in an expression. Both tmesis and synchesis are necessary in poetry because they facilitate the poet's composition of particular rhythms and meters.

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