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Apocope

January 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Apocope (a-pok’-o-pe): Omitting a letter or syllable at the end of a word. A kind of metaplasm.

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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).

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