merism
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Meaning
- noun A reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low".
- noun A reference to something by a list of its parts.
Similar words
nemesis agnomination paronomasia anthimeria metalepsis asteismus pheneme polyseme periphrasis parimion
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