Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of grammatical sequence or coherence; the passing from one construction to another in the same sentence. For examples, see
anacoluthon . Also spelledanakoluthia and anakolouthia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another.
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- noun grammar A
syntactic construction in which anelement is followed by another that does notagree properly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
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Examples
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To be fully engaged emotionally requires celebrating what the Stoic philosophers called anacoluthia—the mutual entailment of the virtues.
The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr 2003
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To be fully engaged emotionally requires celebrating what the Stoic philosophers called anacoluthia—the mutual entailment of the virtues.
The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr 2003
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To be fully engaged emotionally requires celebrating what the Stoic philosophers called anacoluthia—the mutual entailment of the virtues.
The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr 2003
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The Stoic philosophers referred to this paradox as anacoluthia, the mutual entailment of the virtues.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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The Stoic philosophers referred to this paradox as anacoluthia, the mutual entailment of the virtues.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010
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The Stoic philosophers referred to this paradox as anacoluthia, the mutual entailment of the virtues.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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America Online anacoluthia anger acting out breathing affected by converted into physical symptoms costs and benefits of intervention rituals and performance affected by projection and anthrax scare anxiety breathing affected by case study of converted into physical symptoms apathy, case study of
The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr 2003
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America Online anacoluthia anger acting out breathing affected by converted into physical symptoms costs and benefits of intervention rituals and performance affected by projection and anthrax scare anxiety breathing affected by case study of converted into physical symptoms apathy, case study of
The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr 2003
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America Online anacoluthia anger acting out breathing affected by converted into physical symptoms costs and benefits of intervention rituals and performance affected by projection and anthrax scare anxiety breathing affected by case study of converted into physical symptoms apathy, case study of
The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr 2003
knitandpurl commented on the word anacoluthia
"How is it possible that within a belletrist culture like that one, there was so much admiration for the works of Zi--with their soppy sentimentalism and bumpkin sophistication, their bad grammar and archaic anacoluthia, and all those gigantic leaps away from the slightly credible to the wholly fabulous?"
The No Variations by Luis Chitarroni, translated by Darren Koolman, p 129
September 16, 2013