abuse

Figure Name abuse
Source Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm)
Earliest Source None
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Etymology None
Type Chroma
Linguistic Domain
Definition

1. An anglicization of the Latin figure abusio (=catachresis).
2. In a more general sense, "abuse" refers to rhetorical vices, or, in a positive sense, to the rhetorical habit of employing a word in a sense at odds with its original use (see metaphor or trope).

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Related Figures abusio, catachresis
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Last Editor Ashley Rose Kelly
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Reviewer Ashley Rose Kelly