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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In rhetoric, a figure by which a word or phrase which ends one clause or sentence is immediately repeated as the beginning of the next: same as anadiplosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Rhet.) Same as anadiplosis.

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  • noun rhetoric anadiplosis

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek a return, epanastrophe.

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