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epanaphora

epanaphora noun: anaphora.

Noun

epanaphora

  1. (rhetoric) anaphora
    • On words repeated Epanaphora plays,
      Or the same sense in other words conveys.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Epanaphora.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 39
    • Epanaphora, […] has the same meaning [as Anaphora]1857, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Philological Studies: With English Illustrations

Origin of epanaphora

Latin, from Ancient Greek ἐπαναφορά (epanaphorá, “reference”).

Questions about epanaphora

What does epanaphora mean?
Epanaphora means anaphora.
What part of speech is epanaphora?
Epanaphora is a noun.

Words near epanaphora in the dictionary

  1. Epaminondan
  2. epanadiplosis
  3. epanados
  4. epanalepsis
  5. epanaleptic
  6. epanaphora
  7. epanastrophe
  8. epandrial
  9. epandrium
  10. epanodos
  11. epanodoses

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