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- noun rhetoric A
set phrase linking two or more non-synonymous words by conjunction.
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Examples
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Man is not the 'syntheton' or composition of body and soul, as the two component units.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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