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tmesis

separation of a word into parts by inserting a word in the middle: abso-blooming-lutely
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tme·sis

 (tmē′sĭs, mē′-)
n. pl. tme·ses (-sēz)
Separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words; for example, where I go ever instead of wherever I go.
[Late Latin tmēsis, from Greek, a cutting, from temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]
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tmesis

(təˈmiːsɪs; ˈmiːsɪs)
n
(Grammar) interpolation of a word or group of words between the parts of a compound word
[C16: via Latin from Greek, literally: a cutting, from temnein to cut]
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tme•sis

(ˈmi sɪs, təˈmi-)

n.
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
[1580–90; < Late Latin tmēsis < Greek tmḗsis a cutting =tmē-, variant s. of témnein to cut + -sis -sis]
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tmesis

The insertion of a word or part of a word in another word.
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Sometimes attending to the tmeses through which poets fill and overfill what might otherwise be overweeningly overspecified end terms, sometimes times identifying interpretation as a matter of inducing an opening (351), Hartman uncovers literary speech--that of the poet, that of the critic--as a matter of making "room in meaning itself" (352).
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His eccentric margins, capricious word divisions, vagrant punctuation, tmeses, and promiscuously embracing parentheses, can be traced to the scholarly trappings which a Greek poem wears on a textbook page." What's more, although Cummings named all of his ten collections of verse (which, in the Collected Poems, run to over a thousand pages), he named only two of the poems themselves.
Make it Newish: E. E. Cummings, plagiarism, and the perils of originality

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