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What is the noun for catachresis?

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catachresis
  1. A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
  2. (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly-applied metaphor or trope.
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    1. “It is a sort of quaint alteration or catachresis of Possunt quia posse videntur.”
      “Its transformation seems more catachresis than irony, more a twisted similarity than an inversion or negation.”
      “It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court.”
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