Definitions
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- n. Repeating words in immediate succession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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 ⌣ ⌣ – – | ⌣ ⌣ – –.
- n. In rhetoric, immediate or almost immediate repetition of a word, involving added emphasis. An example of accumulated (fourfold) epizeuxis is:
- n. See palillogy. Also called diplasiasmus.
Etymologies
From Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
Examples
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The figure of speech, here, which is known as epizeuxis, is very difficult to do well.
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Most are not words to slip into casual conversation — Great epizeuxis in your presentation, George!
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They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis.
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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.
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And onomatopoeic epizeuxis (say that three times fast!) is often laughable.
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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.
gangerh commented on the word epizeuxis
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.
January 8, 2012
pterodactyl commented on the word epizeuxis
Examples here.
I love, love, love this word!
January 8, 2012
jmjarmstrong commented on the word epizeuxis
JM and epizeuxis, epizeuxis, all all epizeuxis. Epizeuxis as a single status update.
March 29, 2011
epeolatrist commented on the word epizeuxis
(n) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis
February 6, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word epizeuxis
JM declares that epizeuxis and only epizeuxis can result in true epizeuxis or a condition approaching epizeuxis or approximating epizeuxis
February 6, 2009