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"An allegory is the saying one thing, and meaning another; a double-meaning or dilogy is the saying only one thing, but having two in view."

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  1. 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. Intentional use of an ambiguous expression; the word or expression so used. Ambiguity in a wider sense is called amphiboly or amphibology.

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  • "An allegory is the saying one thing, and meaning another; a double-meaning or dilogy is the saying only one thing, but having two in view." —  The Grammar of English Grammars
  • "An allegory is _a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal_; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying _of_ only one thing, —  The Grammar of English Grammars
 

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  1. from Latin dilogia, from Greek διλογία, repetition (cf. διλογεῖν, repeat), from διδίς, twice, + λέγειν, speak.
 

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