association

Figure Name association
Source Bullinger (1898) ("association; or, inclusion")
Earliest Source
Synonyms inclusion
Etymology
Type None
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Definition

1. When the Writer or Speaker associates himself with those whom he addresses. THIS name is given to the Figure because the writer or speaker turns, and (1) includes himself in what he says for others: (2) or, vice versa, includes others in what he says of himself; (3) or, includes many in what he says of one. (Bullinger, 884)

Example

1. Acts 17:27. -"That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, through he be not far from every one of us." (Bullinger, 884)

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Last Editor Ioanna Malton
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