annomination

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin annominatio. See agnomination.

Noun

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annomination (plural annominations)

  1. (obsolete) paronomasia; punning
  2. (obsolete) alliteration
    • 1775–1778, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer:
      Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of Annomination , which he describes to be what we call Alliteration , as the favourite rhetorical figure of both the Welsh and English in his time

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