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Catachresis

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another or by which a word is wrested from its true signification as ldquoTo take arms against a sea of troublesrdquo Shak ldquoHer voice was but the shadow of a soundrdquo Young

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