epistrophe
[ ih-pis-truh-fee ]
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).
Philosophy. (in Neoplatonism) the realization by an intellect of its remoteness from the One.
Origin of epistrophe
1Words Nearby epistrophe
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British Dictionary definitions for epistrophe
epistrophe
/ (ɪˈpɪstrəfɪ) /
noun
rhetoric repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
Origin of epistrophe
1C17: New Latin, from Greek, from epi- + strophē a turning
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