Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient prosody, union of two successive Ionics a minore so that the last syllable of the first and the first syllable of the second interchange quantities: thus, ⌣ ⌣ – ⌣ | – ⌣ – – for ⌣ ⌣ – – | ⌣ ⌣ – –.
- noun In rhetoric, immediate or almost immediate repetition of a word, involving added emphasis. An example of accumulated (fourfold) epizeuxis is:
- noun See
palillogy . Also calleddiplasiasmus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -
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- noun rhetoric Repeating words in immediate succession.
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Examples
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The figure of speech, here, which is known as epizeuxis, is very difficult to do well.
Siris 2009
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Most are not words to slip into casual conversation — Great epizeuxis in your presentation, George!
The Syntax of Style Henry Hitchings 2010
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They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis.
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They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis.
Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Of the remaining long list of figures, the Irish are particularly disposed to the epizeuxis, as 'indeed, indeed -- at all, at all,' and antanaclasis, or double meaning.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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And onomatopoeic epizeuxis (say that three times fast!) is often laughable.
Siris 2009
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But the balance here between the two instances of epizeuxis, each in the midst of a more flowing sentence, in a stanza that marks a sharp and emotional turn in the action, is reasonably well done.
Siris 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word epizeuxis
JM declares that epizeuxis and only epizeuxis can result in true epizeuxis or a condition approaching epizeuxis or approximating epizeuxis
February 6, 2009
epeolatrist commented on the word epizeuxis
(n) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis
February 6, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word epizeuxis
JM and epizeuxis, epizeuxis, all all epizeuxis. Epizeuxis as a single status update.
March 29, 2011
pterodactyl commented on the word epizeuxis
Examples here.
I love, love, love this word!
January 8, 2012
gangerh commented on the word epizeuxis
Hey! I like this word. Thanks for bringing it to me, pter'.
Don't know how it's spoken, though.
Perhaps somewordnik would do a pronunciation or two, or three.
January 8, 2012