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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In rhetoric, a figure by which successive clauses begin with the same word or words or with a word or phrase of similar meaning; epanaphora.
  • noun In embryology, same as epiboly.

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  • noun The irregular recurrence of the same expression within a verse or successive verses of scripture. Essentially random repetition.

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