An alternative form of anastrophe; reversal of normal word order for rhetorical or poetic effect.
Variant spelling of anastrophe, from Greek ana- (back) and strophe (turning). All three variants (anastrophe, anastrophia, anastrophy) share the same Greek root.
English has three versions of this word floating around because medieval and Renaissance scholars kept Latinizing and transliterating the Greek term differently—linguistic archaeology is hiding in your dictionary.
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