annomination
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin annominatio. See agnomination.
Noun[edit]
annomination (plural annominations)
- (obsolete) paronomasia; punning
- (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