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  ostension
  output
  ouvert1
  ouvert2
  ouverture1
  ouverture2
  oxymore
oxymoron
  oxyton1
  oxyton2
  oxytonique
  paire
  palais
  palatal
  palatale

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oxymoron

Eng    oxymoron

nMS

Synonym(s): alliance de mots, oxymore

Type of: figure de signification, trope

Related term(s): paradoxe

Domain: Rhetorics

Source(s): Baylon & Fabre 1978: 197; Dubois etal. 1994: 339; Ducrot & Todorov 1972: 354; Moeschler & Reboul 1994: 408; Mounin 1974: 240

English word list

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  oscilloscope
  ostension
  ostensive
  other-initiated repair
  otherness
  other-repair
  out of phase
  outline
  output1
  output2
  overcoding
  overcorrection
  overdetermination
  overdifferentiated
  overgeneralization

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