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as composed of "no" plus "yes", or refers to some oxymoronic candidates as puns through the conversion of nouns into verbs, as in "divorce court", or "press release". He refers to potential oxymora such as "war games", "peacekeeping missile", "United Nations", and "airline food" as opinion-based,
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According to Wills, Buckley has "poisoned the general currency" of the word oxymoron by using it as just a "fancier word for 'contradiction'", when he said that "an intelligent liberal is an oxymoron". Wills argues that use of the term "oxymoron" should remain reserved for the conscious use of
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Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of
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In literary contexts, the author does not usually signal the use of an oxymoron, but in rhetorical usage, it has become common practice to advertise the use of an oxymoron explicitly to clarify the argument, as in:
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in 1975 include "military intelligence" (a play on the lexical meanings of the term "intelligence", implying that "military" inherently excludes the presence of "intelligence") and "
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Similarly, the term "civil war" is sometimes jokingly referred to as an "oxymoron" (punning on the lexical meanings of the word "civil").
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone
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of sentences or phrases. One classic example of the use of oxymorons in English literature can be found in this example from
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of popularizing this trend, based on the success of the latter's claim that "an intelligent liberal is an oxymoron".
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In this example, "Epicurean pessimist" would be recognized as an oxymoron in any case, as the core tenet of
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There are a number of single-word oxymorons built from "dependent morphemes" (i.e. no longer a productive
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The King of Heaven forbid our lord the king / Should so with civil and uncivil arms Be rushed upon!
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Other examples include "honest politician", "affordable caviar" (1993), "happily married" and "
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between the two antonyms; such compounds (not necessarily of antonyms) are known as
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expressions which at first sight appear absurd, but which contain a concealed point
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Shen, Yeshayahu (1987). "On the structure and understanding of poetic oxymoron".
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capti potuere capi, cum felle dictum est: nam si hoc removeas, erit oxymorum.
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Other examples from English-language literature include: "hateful good" (
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in English, but loaned as a compound from a different language), as with
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However, the usage of "oxymoron" for "contradiction" is recorded by the
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because some may disagree that they contain an internal contradiction.
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concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a
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This article is about the contradiction in terms. For other uses, see
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contradiction to express something that is "surprisingly true".
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combination of two words, but they can also be devised in the
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is an example from a Western language; the term is short for
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Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
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Oxymorons are words that communicate contradictions.
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Oxymoron (disambiguation)

figure of speech
juxtaposes
self-contradiction
rhetorical device
paradox
Maurus Servius Honoratus
Greek
autological
dead metaphors
compound
pre-posterous
hysteron proteron
upside-down
head over heels
ass-backwards
sopho-more
adjective
noun
meaning
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo
Chaucer
Spenser
Milton
John Donne
damn with faint praise
Pope

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