enallage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')

WordNet

E*nal"la*ge noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. an exchange, fr. to exchange; in + to change.
Definitions
  1. (Gram.) A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.

Webster 1913