| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| anadiplosis |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·a·di·plo·sis |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n  -d-pl  s s |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. an·a·di·plo·ses (-s z)
Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty—loyalty always firm. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin anadiplsis, from Greek, from anadiploun, to redouble : ana-, ana- + diploun, to double (from diplous, double; see dwo- in Appendix I).
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