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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In rhetoric: The use of a word or words twice in the same context; repetition, especially for the sake of emphasis. Unnecessary or ill-judged dilogy results in tautology (which see).
  2. n. Intentional use of an ambiguous expression; the word or expression so used. Ambiguity in a wider sense is called amphiboly or amphibology.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
  2. n. Repetition of a word or phrase.
  3. n. A series of two related works

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rhet.), rare An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, "repetition"), from δίς (dís, "twice") + -λογία (-logía, "-logy") (Wiktionary)

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  1. tautology
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  • jmjarmstrong JM is aiming to restrict his dilogy in a diligent and intentional (good) manner. Oct 18, 2010

  • whichbe Intentional ambiguousness. (from Phrontistery) May 24, 2008

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