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Hendiadys (Hen-dye-a-dis) Defined

The use of a pair of independent words joined by and, where one of the words achieves the effect of a modifier, to express a single expanded idea, as nice and warm (nicely warm) or Tennyson's:
waving to him white hands and courtesy (courteous white hands)
Sidelight: Shakespeare's works contain many examples of hendiadys, such as "sound and fury" (furious sound) in Macbeth, and "heat and flame" (hot flame) in Hamlet.
(Compare Prolepsis, Syllepsis. Zeugma)

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