epanastrophe
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπαναστροφή (epanastrophḗ, “return”).
Noun[edit]
epanastrophe (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) Anadiplosis.
- 1857, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Philological Studies: With English Illustrations:
- The repetition of a word or phrase in the same sense […] as in epanastrophe, […] adds weight to the thought or idea, and increases its logical worth.
Translations[edit]
anadiplosis — see also anadiplosis
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References[edit]
- “epanastrophe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.