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"on hold"
If a single word is required, metaphrasis might be considered [in its secondary meaning]:
metaphrasis - metaphrase:
....
To manipulate the wording of (a text), especially as a means of subtly altering the sense.
But, I hasten to add, Wordwind, that there is not a single word to render "inverted metaphor" [as far as I know*], so why do we 'hold out' for a single word to render "inverted aphorism" - an obvious relation of the "inverted metaphor"?
*subject to the illumination of higher authority, of course.
Sometimes, less is more, I agree. But, sometimes, less is simply less precise.
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