Hendiadys are a figure of speech. it is an expression of an idea by the use of usually two independent words connected by the word "and" instead of the usual combination of independent word and is modifier. The origin of the word "hendiadys" is in the Late Latin word "hendiadyion", a modification of the Greek "hen dia dyoin" which literally means "one through two". The first known use of the device in English was circa 1577.
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) often used hendiadys in his plays. For example, in his play Hamlet, he used the figure of speech sixty-six time. Some examples are below.
The book and volume of my brain
Oh this is hire and salary not revenge
The food and diet of some enterprise
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land
The gross and scope of my opinion
Most holy and religious fear
The single and peculiar life
The strength and amour of the mind
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Angels and ministers of grace defend us
The glass of fashion and the mold of form
The very age and body of the time
his form and pressure