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Webster 1913 Edition
Antimetabole
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Anˊti-me-tab′o-le
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]
(Rhet.)
A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
Webster 1828 Edition
Antimetabole
ANTIMETAB'OLE
,Noun.
In rhetoric, a setting of two things in opposition to each other; as, an honorable action may be attended with labor, but the labor is soon past, and the honor is immortal.