parembole

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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parembole (plural paremboles)

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