Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A twofold reading or interpretation, as of a passage in the Bible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text.
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- noun A
double reading orinterpretation of atext
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Latham calls it, ‘dittology’ as Heyse, recurs in Italian,
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
missanthropist commented on the word dittology
A two~fold or double reading or interpretation.
Sir James Murray, New English Dictionary, 1897
May 17, 2008