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epistrophe

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e⋅pis⋅tro⋅phe

[i-pis-truh-fee]
–noun
1. 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).
2. Neoplatonism. the realization by an intellect of its remoteness from the One.

Origin:
1640–50; < NL < Gk epistroph; see epi-, strophe
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epistrophe

noun
repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. [syn: epiphora
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