Definition of "asyndeton"

asyndeton

noun
countable and uncountable, plural asyndetons or asyndeta
1. (grammar, rhetoric) Omission of conjunctions, especially for rhetorical effect.
  Quotations
  Asyndeton, or the Loose language... as thus. I saw it, I said it, I will sweare it.
  1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, page 145
  Asyndeton the Cop'latives denies. Faith, Justice, Truth, Religion, Mercy dies.
  1740, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica, 2nd edition, page 145
  Asyndeton the copulative denies;And sometimes haste and rage sometimes implies.]
  Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, page 50