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epanados

epanados is the alternative form of epanodos.

Meaning of epanodos

Noun

epanodos (countable and uncountable, plural epanodoses)

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
    • By Epanodos the same word moves its place,
      Takes first and last and also middle space.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epanodos.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 83
  2. Recapitulation of the main points in a discourse.

Questions about epanados

What is epanados the alternative form of?
Epanados is the alternative form of epanodos.

Words near epanados in the dictionary

  1. epalons
  2. epalpebrate
  3. epalrestat
  4. Epaminondan
  5. epanadiplosis
  6. epanados
  7. epanalepsis
  8. epanaleptic
  9. epanaphora
  10. epanastrophe
  11. epandrial

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