What is a substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another called?
enallage — A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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