Look up: oxymoron

1. Oxymoron
   apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another.
   *Festina lente.
   *I must be cruel only to be kind. Shakespeare, Hamlet
   Found on http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.
   
   
2. Oxymoron
   Figure of speech containing two seemingly contradictory expressions e.g. 'Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.' (Idylls of the King by Tennyson)
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3. oxymoron
   [n] - conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence`)
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4. Oxymoron
   a figure of speech which yokes two contradictory terms
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5. Oxymoron
   the technical term for a paradox which is expressed in two contradictory words. e.g. bitter sweet; love hate; bitter laughter.
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6. Oxymoron
   Ox`y·mo'ron noun [ New Latin , from Greek ........., from ......... pointedly foolish; ......... sharp + ......... foolish.] (Rhet.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness ; laborious idleness .
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/62
   
   
7. oxymoron
   noun conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence`)
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8. Oxymoron
   • (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
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9. oxymoron
   (from the article `paradox`) When a paradox is compressed into two words as in `loud silence,` `lonely crowd,` or `living death,` it is called an oxymoron.
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/44
   
   
10. oxymoron
    oxymoron (s), oxymora (pl) 1. A phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect; such as, 'deafening silence','wise fool', or 'legal murder'. 2. A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “crue...
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11. oxymoron
    an expression impossible in fact but not necessarily self-contradictory, such as John Milton's description of Hell as 'darkness visible' in Book I of Paradise Lost.
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12. Oxymoron
    An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word. For example 'cruel kindness' or 'laborious idleness'.
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13. oxymoron
    Figure of speech involving the combination of two or more words that are normally opposites, in order to startle. Bittersweet is an oxymoron, as are cruel to be kind and beloved enemy
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14. Oxymoron
    An `oxymoron` (plural `oxymorons` or `oxymora`) (from Greek ὀξύμωρον, "sharp dull") is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. Oxymorons appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors such as ground pilot and literary oxymoron...
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15. Oxymoron
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