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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

epanastrophe en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (rhetoric, uncountable) Anadiplosis.
    • 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. 1857, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Philological Studies: With English Illustrations:

Translations (2)

fr épanastrophe (anadiplosis) · fi anadiploosi (anadiplosis)