reduplication

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The shadow cast by a man's own body, the reflection of images in the water, natural echoes, the reappearance of images of the departed in dreams, the general instinct which leads man to vivify all he sees, produced what may be called the reduplication of man in himself, and the savage's primitive theory of the human soul.

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  1. noun The act of reduplicating or the state of being reduplicated.
  2. noun The product or result of reduplicating.
  3. noun Linguistics A word formed by or containing a reduplicated element.

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  • Such words as "calefaction exility," "self-reduplication," "tricentreity," "individuation circumvolution," "presentifick circularity," struggle and sprawl within the narrow room of the Spenserian stanza. —  Milton
  • They seem to have sometimes used this term with a reduplication: for we read of a city in Canaan called [141]Sansanah; by which is signified a place sacred to the most illustrious Orb of day. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
  • It is clear that the simple personifying faculty of the intellect sufficed in its earliest emotions, but that after the slow development of psychical reduplication, and the enlargement of languages and ideas, it no longer satisfied the logical requirements of the mind Consequently, explicit,--that is, rational--singular, and specific ideas gradually arose and assumed a definite form; they were interwoven and fused into these individual and specific types, and thus obtained a place in the thoughts and language of primitive man. —  Myth and Science An Essay
  • The shadow cast by a man's own body, the reflection of images in the water, natural echoes, the reappearance of images of the departed in dreams, the general instinct which leads man to vivify all he sees, produced what may be called the reduplication of man in himself, and the savage's primitive theory of the human soul. —  Myth and Science An Essay
  • Thus: com-pulī, but re-poposc NOTE 2.--Verbs beginning with sp or st retain both consonants in the reduplication, but drop s from the stem; as, spondeō, spo-pondī; stō, stet b) The short vowel of the Verb Stem is lengthened; as, legō, lēgī; ag gī. —  New Latin Grammar
 

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  1. = French réduplication = Spanish reduplicacion = Portuguese reduplicação =Italian reduplicazione, from Latin reduplicatio (n-), from (Middle Latin) reduplicate, redouble, reduplicate: see reduplicate.
 

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/rədjuplɪˈkeɪʃən/
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