annomination

English

Etymology

From Latin annominatio. See agnomination.

Noun

annomination (plural annominations)

1. (obsolete) paronomasia; punning
2. (obsolete) alliteration
   • 1775–1778, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer:

     Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of Annomination , which he describes to be what we call Alliteration , as the favourite rhetorical figure of both the Welsh and English in his time

Anagrams

• nonanimation