PARONOM'ASY, noun [from Gr. to transgress law or rule.]
A rhetorical figure, by which words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings, are affectedly or designedly used; a play upon words; a pun. [See Pun.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.