Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In rhetoric, a figure by which a sentence begins and ends with the same word: as, “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.”

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  • noun rhetoric A figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence, as in: "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."

Etymologies

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Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "to make double".

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