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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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 ⌣ ⌣ – – | ⌣ ⌣ – –. The syllables representing an Ionic a majore (– – ⌣ ⌣) thus suffer anaclasis, taking the form – ⌣ – ⌣.
  2. n. In rhetoric, immediate or almost immediate repetition of a word, involving added emphasis. An example of accumulated (fourfold) epizeuxis is:
  3. n. See palillogy. Also called diplasiasmus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. rhetoric Repeating words in immediate succession.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The figure of speech, here, which is known as epizeuxis, is very difficult to do well.”

    Siris

  • “Most are not words to slip into casual conversation — Great epizeuxis in your presentation, George!”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Syntax of Style

  • “They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis.”

    Laddie: A True Blue Story

  • “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

  • “And onomatopoeic epizeuxis (say that three times fast!) is often laughable.”

    Siris

  • “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

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  1. diplasiasmus
  1. palillogy
  1. epizeuxis
  1. gemination

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  • gangerh 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. Jan 8, 2012

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    Examples here.

    I love, love, love this word! Jan 8, 2012

  • jmjarmstrong JM and epizeuxis, epizeuxis, all all epizeuxis. Epizeuxis as a single status update. Mar 28, 2011

  • epeolatrist (n) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis Feb 6, 2009

  • jmjarmstrong JM declares that epizeuxis and only epizeuxis can result in true epizeuxis or a condition approaching epizeuxis or approximating epizeuxis Feb 6, 2009

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