epanastrophe

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπαναστροφή (epanastrophḗ, “return”).

Noun

epanastrophe (uncountable)

  1. (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.

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References
  • epanastrophe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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