epistrophe

[ ih-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. Philosophy. (in Neoplatonism) the realization by an intellect of its remoteness from the One.

Origin of epistrophe

1
First recorded in 1640–50; from New Latin, from Greek epistrophḗ; see epi-, strophe

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British Dictionary definitions for epistrophe

epistrophe

/ (ɪˈpɪstrəfɪ) /


noun
  1. rhetoric repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

Origin of epistrophe

1
C17: New Latin, from Greek, from epi- + strophē a turning

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