Apocope (a-pok’-o-pe): Omitting a letter or syllable at the end of a word. A kind of metaplasm.
Letter ‘t‘ omitted: He was an hon-es nuisance!
Final syllable ‘cle‘ omitted: He could bi-cy from here to outer space on that old ten-speed!
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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