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chiasmi

Variant of chiasmus

noun pl. chiasmi

Rhetoric inversion of the second of two parallel phrases, clauses, etc. (Ex.: she went to Paris; to New York went he)

Origin: ModL < Gr chiasmos: see chiasma

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chiastic adjective

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