refhvörf

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse refhvörf.^[1]

Noun

refhvörf n pl (plurale tantum)

an oxymoron, a kind of equivocation which consisted in pairing off words of opposite bearing

Derived terms

refhvarfabróðir (a kind of spurious oxymoron)
refhvarfaháttur (a metre or stanza in oxymoron)

References

^ ref-hvörf from Cleasby/Vigfusson

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