[uh-naf-er-uh] 
| 1. | Also called epanaphora. Rhetoric. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Compare epistrophe (def. 1), symploce. |
| 2. | Grammar. the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and he does too. Compare cataphora. |
| 3. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) Eastern Church.
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