hendiadys in English
noun
1
the expression of a single idea by two words connected with “and,” e.g., nice and warm , when one could be used to modify the other, as in nicely warm.
The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys .
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1. An unusual rhetorical device, hendiadys, appears in several places in the play.
2. In other languages, typical pseudo-Coordinative verbs and/or hendiadys predicates are egressive verbs (e.g
3. Adynamias Beladying hendiadys ladybirds ladyflies ladyfying ladyhoods ladyloves ladypalms ladyships makeready megadynes nonsteady padymelon readymade saleslady steadying toadyisms