ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HENDIADYS
From Medieval Latin, changed from Greek phrase hen dia duoin, literally: one through two.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HENDIADYS»
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hendiadys in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hendiadys and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Williams' Hebrew Syntax
English examples of hendiadys include 'assault and battery' and 'kith and kin.' In
Hebrew, whenever two substantives are joined by the conjunction ) 'and' (§430b),
they are a hendiadys if the combination expresses a single concept.
Ronald James Williams, John C. Beckman, 2007
2
A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
said 'The speckled shall be your wages,' then all the flock brought forth speckled"
(Gen 31:8). (g) Hendiadys - The waw conjunctive can function to conjoin two or
more words into a construction that refers to a single idea, or points to a single ...
Bill T. Arnold, John H. Choi, 2003
Hendiadys, remarks Wright with admirable prudence, 'if there is such a thing' (p.
170, emphasis added). The very title of his essay, 'Hendiadys and Hamlet', poses
the strangeness: is this title itself an example of hendiadys? How can one prove ...
4
Hearing the Measures: Shakespearean and Other Inflections
Hendiadys and Hamlet A horse and a man Is more than one. And yet not many.
— The Taming of the Shrew What's his weapon? Rapier and dagger. That's two
of his weapons. — Hamlet Editors of Shakespeare have long been aware that the
...
George Thaddeus Wright, 2001
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Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts
VERbal Hendiadys in Old-Babylonian literary texts 10.1. Research into verbal
Hendiadys in previous assyriological literature As stated above (§1.1), the
comment 'in hendiadys' is occasionally found in the dictionaries. These remarks
refer, in ...
6
Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and ...
A Survey of Syntagms in the Hebrew Bible Classified as Hendiadys Rosmari
Lillas-Schuil, Goteborg University A term frequently used to designate syntagms
of various kinds and categories in the Hebrew Bible is hendiadys, which is
derived ...
Lutz Edzard, Jan Retsö, 2006
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The Song of Songs and Ancient Tamil Love Poems: Poetry and ...
Hendiadys Hendiadys means literally "one through two," i.e. one idea by means
of two words. The words may be collocated, or joined by a copula, or put in
apposition. The important aspect of hendiadys is that its components are no
longer ...
Abraham Mariaselvam, 1988
8
God's Word for Our World
Surely the latter rendering is more accepting of the hendiadys. Lambdin also
provides examples of asyndetic hendiadic constructions. Among them is sub
šekãb ('Lie down again'), an imperative situated in Eli's speech to the boy Samuel
in 1 ...
Deborah L. Ellens, J. Harold Ellens, Isaac Kalimi, 2004
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Gemination in the Akkadian Verb
Murrusu "to do sth severely", from marasu "to be(come) ill, annoyed" (Kraus 1987:
20); 2x in OB letters (AbB 1, 72: r.2; 112: 14'); this D-stem is hardly attested
elsewhere, cf. 7.5.6 sv: marasu normally uses a factitive §-stem, also in
hendiadys, cf.
N. J. C. Kouwenberg, 1997
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Time-fetishes: The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence
Hendiadys denaturalizes the natural attitude toward the realm of appearances.
William Empson seems to have had an intuitive sense that Shakespeare's "
fondness for pairing nouns" was "fundamental to his method" (Seven Types of ...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HENDIADYS»
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hendiadys is used in the context of the following news items.
The Wire and tautology is what it is, which is great
“All well and good” and “in this day and age” are examples of another type of phrase construction called “hendiadys” where a concept is ... «Geek, May 15»
In many words
... Epimone, Epistrophe, Homiologia, Hyperbole, Hendiadys, Irony, Insultatio, Isocolon, Litotes, Metonymy, Metaphor, Malapropism, Neologism, ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
Easy it is to write, perchance to impress
The figures have complicated names like anadiplosis and hendiadys but they are pretty simple really. Anadiplosis is just using the last word of ... «Express.co.uk, Nov 13»
'I4C' a future filled with Chardonnay
Staete Land Chardonnay 'Josephine' 2010 (332494, $57.00) is built upon a Marlborough hendiadys, a complex conjunction of rocks and earth. «Canada.com, Aug 13»
Between Useless and Useful Tautologies in English (I)
They are pleonastic idiomatic expressions, emphatic reflexive pronouns, legal doublets and triplets, hendiadys, and tautological place names ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 13»
Drinking vessels: 'goblet'
When dictionaries explain the rhetorical figure of hendiadys, they sometimes give the example drink from gold and goblet for drink from golden ... «OUPblog, Jan 13»
Shakespearean passions around 'bullyragging'
... instead of hendiadys (= a single concept expressed by two words, with and between them ). Bullying people is bad, ragging them is also bad, ... «OUPblog, Nov 12»
Memories of Frank Kermode
... the cryptic language patterns of the opening of Wuthering Heights in The Classic or to the trope of hendiadys in Hamlet in Forms of Attention. «London Review of Books, Sep 10»
