Usually means: Break in grammatical sequence; discontinuity.
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  1. anacolutha: Merriam-Webster
  2. anacolutha: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anacolutha: Collins English Dictionary
  4. anacolutha: Vocabulary.com
  5. anacolutha: Wordnik
  6. anacolutha: Wiktionary
  7. anacolutha: Dictionary.com
  8. ANACOLUTHA: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. anacolutha: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. anacolutha: Legal dictionary

(Note: See anacoluthon as well.)

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noun:  Alternative spelling of anacoloutha [(rhetoric) A non-reciprocal synonym; a word of meaning similar to a word but that cannot substitute for that word in all uses.]

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