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epistrophe

[ih-pis-truh-fee]

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noun

Also called epiphora. Rhetoric. the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences, as in “I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong. …” Compare anaphora (def. 1).

Neoplatonism. the realization by an intellect of its remoteness from the One.

Origin:
1640–50; < Neo-Latin < Greek epistrophḗ; see epi-, strophe

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epistrophe (ɪˈpɪstrəfɪ)

—n
	rhetoric repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

[C17: New Latin, from Greek, from epi- + strophē a turning]

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epistrophe

from Gk. epistrophe, from epi upon + strophe a turning (see strophe).

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