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 sameword is used both at the beginning and at the end of asentence , 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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