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noun 
  1. (context, grammar, rhetoric) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.
Etymology: Latin hyperbatonLatin, hyperbaton, from Greek á "overstepping", from á, from á- + "walk".


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