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English
Etymology
Compare French paronomasie.
Noun
paronomasy (countable and uncountable, plural paronomasies)
- Archaic form of paronomasia.
- a 1637, Ben Jonson, Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter, published posthumously (1640)
- Marry, we must not play or riot too much with them, as in paronomasies.
1972, Language Quarterly, volumes 6-10, page 34:Unless, by sheer coincidence, the target language contains a similar word pair, also similar in meaning, the effect of the paronomasy must be lost in the translation.
1974, Michael West, “Scatology and Eschatology: The Heroic Dimensions of Thoreau's Wordplay”, in Publications of the Modern Language Association of, JSTOR:Sanctioning etymological speculation, Coleridge urged that his readers be alert to "the equivocal or double meaning of a word," and went so far as to contemplate writing an Apology for Paronomasy, alias Punning
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