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noun
A figure of speech in which a phrase that should come last is put first; hysterology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric
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noun
An inversion or reversal of the natural order of things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: logical fallacy
noun
reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rhetorical device
History
From Ancient Greek, from ὕστερον (hústeron, “latter, arriving late”) + πρότερον (próteron, “former, before”).
