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ANTIMERIA

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in grammar, a figure whereby one part of speech is used for another: e.g., velle sum quique est, for voluntas tuae quique est; also, populus late rex, for populatus late regnans.

in a more restrained sense, is a figure where the noun is repeated instead of the pronoun. The antimeria is frequent in the Hebrew, and is sometimes retained in our version of the Old Testament accordingly: e.g., Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, for my wives, Gen. iv. 23.