How To Use hendiadys In A Sentence
- The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys.
- Hendíadys (‛ εν δια δυοιν, _one through two_) is the use of two nouns joined by a conjunction, in the sense of a noun modified by a Genitive or an Adjective; as, -- febris et aestus, _the heat of fever_; celeritāte cursūque, _by swift running_. New Latin Grammar
- Diplophrasis My letter in the February 1976 VERBATIM, listing phrases in our language in which synonyms are joined by and (aches and pains, alas and alack, bits and pieces) and other examples of hendiadys and merism elicited many additions from readers. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4
- That, in our submission, should be treated as an hendiadys.
- The alignment of grace and truth is what we see at the end of the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel, and that, itself, I take as a Hebrew hendiadys.
