Definitions
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- By metonymy.
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- adverb In a
metonymic fashion; usingmetonymy .
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- adverb in a metonymic manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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And yet even at this moment the account of Providence and the fear it inspires give way to a new kind of fear: one that is metonymically connected to other fears, while simultaneously, relentlessly, and persuasively sharpened into a single fear of having done wrong.
Romantic Fear 2008
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It keeps getting itself bogged down with the merely metonymically representative: all the twisty ins-and-outs of personal and political interaction, all the nooks and crannies of the worldbuilding.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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This metaphor is treated metonymically, such that the immoral person is actually described as someone who enters these places, as if the act of movement and the immoral deed belong to the same behavioral domain. 33
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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It keeps getting itself bogged down with the merely metonymically representative: all the twisty ins-and-outs of personal and political interaction, all the nooks and crannies of the worldbuilding.
Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009) Adam Roberts 2010
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He wrote, so rightly, of his early stories, and metonymically, of his life's literary enterprise: "My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me — and to give the mundane its beautiful due."
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Female bodies in particular are metonymically read through their accessories as a full package that can be "taken."
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006
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In short, here's the issue: We have minimal evidence of the life of William Shakespeare, and especially minimal evidence connecting him to the plays we associate metonymically with his name where "Shakespeare" stands for the body of work, for the plays, and for numerous classes on those works.
NPR on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, Part One: Drama vs Realism Bardiac 2008
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So people metonymically transferred Juno's attribute to what was coming out of the mint.
Word meaning as a window into thought josh 2008
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British public, metonymically represented by its addressee, Henry Cullen.
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It is entertainment generally — all advertisement, radio, television, film, and music — that appears metonymically on
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006
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