Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In rhetoric, repetition of a word one or more times in close succession; especially, such repetition with a change of meaning or application: as, a man should be a man.

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

  • noun (Rhet.) A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.”

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  • noun rhetoric A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning

Etymologies

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From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (ploke, "complication").

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Examples

  • This figure is known to the rhetoricians as anadiplosis, or the beginning of a phrase with the final words of the previous phrase; it is also ploce, the insistent repetition of a word within the same line or phrase.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • When being charged by ploce, do they have to do it in person or can they do it through letter?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • That is to say, it’s a game about driving away from the ploce as fast as you can.

    SLACKERJACK – Monsterstack 2009

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  • JM plops ploce in particular places as ploce-making is potent.

    April 5, 2011