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anadiploses

anadiploses is the plural of anadiplosis.

Meaning of anadiplosis

Noun

anadiplosis (countable and uncountable, plural anadiploses)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression.
    • Anadiplosis ends the former line
      With what the next does for its first design.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Anadiplosis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 80

Questions about anadiploses

What is anadiploses the plural of?
Anadiploses is the plural of anadiplosis.

Words near anadiploses in the dictionary

  1. anadenia
  2. ANADEW
  3. anadicrotic
  4. anadicrotism
  5. anadidymus
  6. anadiploses
  7. anadiplosis
  8. anadiplotic
  9. anadipsia
  10. anadrom
  11. anadrome

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