DISTINCTIO  以定義避免雙關法

METALINGUISTIC COMMENT in the form of explicit reference to various meanings of a word, thereby removing ambiguities.

Hypernym
  • METALINGUISTIC COMMENTRHETORICAL TROPE which consists in remarks not mainly concerned with the world but about language itself or about one's present or forthcoming message and its place in the world.
    • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Lanham

REF: Lausberg 660-662, Miriam 171 "Distinction is a figure which removes ambiguity by explicitly adverting to the various meanings of a word..."

Greek/Latin: Ps.Rufin. lex. 24 ajntivstasi" est, cum idem verbum repetitur in contrario sensu, uit: "una salus victis nullam sperare salutem. (Aeneis 2.354). See Qunt. 8.2.13. Carm. 49: diafora: si verbum diverse iteres, distinctio fiet.

Ancient Chinese: Unger's example: 人而不仁不可謂之人。 will not do. The pattern needs to be investigated.

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