Usually means: Swapping positions without changing composition.
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  1. antimetathesis: Collins English Dictionary
  2. antimetathesis: Wordnik
  3. antimetathesis: Wiktionary
  4. Antimetathesis: Dictionary.com
  5. Antimetathesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. antimetathesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Antimetathesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. antimetathesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. antimetathesis: FreeDictionary.org
  10. antimetathesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (antimetathesis)

noun:  The repetition of the same word in a sentence with a different meaning.
noun:  The inversion of the parts of an antithesis, as in "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture, a mute poem" (Crabbe).

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