Pronounced: YAWP, verb
Notes: I didn’t really know the meaning of this word
Yesterday’s word
The word antimetabole is “a repetition of words or an idea in a reverse order” (an example is “to fail to plan is to plan to fail”).
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Another antimetabole is “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. Our word came from the Greek word antimetabole, which is made up of anti- (opposite) and metabole (change); the latter is made up of meta- (after; along) and bole (a throw).
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