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[In Fr. an nomination. From Lat. annominatio, agnominatio; ad to, and nominatio = a naming; nomino =to name; nomena name.] 1. Alliteration. The use of several words beginning with the same letter. "Giraldus Cam brens is speaks of an nomination, which he describes to be what we call alliteration.' Tyrwhitt: E , on the Lang. of Chaucer , § 1, n. 2. Rhet . A paronomasia, a pun. The using of two words alike or nearly alike in sound, but widely different in meaning.