epanastrophe

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπαναστροφή (epanastrophḗ, “return”).

Noun

epanastrophe (uncountable)

(rhetoric) Anadiplosis.
- 1857, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Philological Studies: With English Illustrations:
  The repetition of a word or phrase in the same sense […] as in epanastrophe, […] adds weight to the thought or idea, and increases its logical worth.

Translations

anadiplosis — see also anadiplosis

Finnish: anadiploosi
French: épanastrophe (fr) f

References

“epanastrophe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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