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WhiteSmoke's Dictionary

Term: Antimetabole


Definition:

Antimetabole is a rhetorical device where a word or a phrase in one clause or phrase is repeated in the opposite order in the next clause or phrase:

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

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