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prettygoodwordhendiadys - n., a figure of speech using two nouns joined by a conjunction instead of an adjective modifying a substantive.
Or more briefly, "the substitution of a conjunction for a subordination." For example, "nice and warm" instead of "nicely warm" or "sound and fury" instead of "furious sound". The effect is to give the concepts emphasis -- or when done well anyway. Pronounced hen-DAI-uh-dis. In use since the 1570s, from Late Latin, from Latin, alteration of Greek hèn dià duoîn, one by means of two. Interestingly, for a rhetorical figure named in Greek, there's no record of the Greek grammarians ever using the term -- ancient Latin writers use it all over, though. Hmmm.
---L.
Or more briefly, "the substitution of a conjunction for a subordination." For example, "nice and warm" instead of "nicely warm" or "sound and fury" instead of "furious sound". The effect is to give the concepts emphasis -- or when done well anyway. Pronounced hen-DAI-uh-dis. In use since the 1570s, from Late Latin, from Latin, alteration of Greek hèn dià duoîn, one by means of two. Interestingly, for a rhetorical figure named in Greek, there's no record of the Greek grammarians ever using the term -- ancient Latin writers use it all over, though. Hmmm.
---L.
