annomination

noun — 2 senses

annomination

noun

Etymology From Latin annominatio. See agnomination.

1

Obsolete paronomasia; punning

2

Obsolete alliteration

Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of Annomination , which he describes to be what we call Alliteration , as the favourite rhetorical figure of both the Welsh and English in his time1775–1778, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer:

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