enallage

  1. Noun.  (uncountable, rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable, rhetoric) The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
  3. Noun.  (rhetoric, countable) An application of enallage.

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