merism meaning

/merˈi-zm/ (biology)
  noun
  Repetition of parts
  ORIGIN: Gr meros part

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1. The two parts of the legal merism " chattels.
2. The entire phrase is an elaborate merism.
3. In rhetoric a merism is the combination of two contrasting words, to refer to an entirety.
4. For example, in Genesis 1 : 5 uses " evening " and " morning " as a merism for " one day ".
5. "Good and evil " is a merism, in this case meaning simply " everything ", but it may also have a moral connotation.