Epanorthosis

//__Epanorthosis __//


 * Definition:: **The replacement of a particular word with a term that is more correct or stronger


 * Origin:: **from the Greek, meaning //a setting straight//


 * See also:: **metanoeia; correctio

Definition taken from (Oxford English Dictionary).


 * Examples ** from text:

1) "He was like a pregnant woman, only that the thing inside him was not a baby but a youth. **__//No, it wasn't a youth, it was a woman//__**, young, and wearing a coat of mail like a knight." - from Sherwood Anderson's "The Book of the Grotesque"

 2) "He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any **//__less careful__//, //__less tender__//** friend in bearing the sad message." - from Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"

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