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Noun: enallage  en'a-lu-jee
  1. A substitution of part of speech, gender, number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial ‘we’ for ‘I’)
    "The royal 'we' in 'We are not amused' is an example of enallage"

Derived forms: enallages

Type of: rhetorical device

Encyclopedia: Enallage