annomination
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin annominatio. See agnomination.
Noun
editannomination (plural annominations)
- (obsolete) paronomasia; punning
- (obsolete) alliteration
- 1775–1778, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer:
- Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of Annomination , which he describes to be what we call Alliteration , as the favourite rhetorical figure of both the Welsh and English in his time