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   adynaton
   a kind of hyperbole in which the exaggeration is so great that it refers to an impossibility, as in the following lines from Andrew Marvell`s `To His ...
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   Adynaton
   Adynaton (plural adynata) is a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to suggest a complete impossibility: The word derives from the Greek ἀδύνατον (adunaton), neuter of ἀδύνατος (adunatos), "unable, impossible" (a-, "without" + dynasthai, "to b...
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