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Webster 1913 Edition

Parembole

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Pa-rem′bo-le

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Noun.
[NL., from Gr. [GREEK] an insertion beside. See
Para-
, and
Embolus
.]
(Rhet.)
A kind of parenthesis.

Webster 1828 Edition

Parembole

PAREMBOLE

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Noun.
parem'boly. [Gr. insertion.] In rhetoric,the insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period. It differs from the parenthesis only in this; the parembole relates to the subject,the parenthesis is foreign from it.

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