English Explanatory Dictionary

parembole

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of rhetorical parenthesis. The insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period.

Word forms

parembole paremboles

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρεμβολή (parembolḗ, “throwing in”).

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