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epiphoneme

epiphoneme is the alternative form of epiphonema.

Meaning of epiphonema

Noun

epiphonema (plural epiphonemas or epiphonemata)

  1. (rhetoric) An exclamation or reflection used to summarise or round off an argument or discourse.
    • he would ſometimes break off in a ſudden and ſpirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis, raiſed a third, and ſometimes a full fifth, above the key of the diſcourſe, […]1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC...

Forms of epiphoneme

pluralepiphonemes

Questions about epiphoneme

What is epiphoneme the alternative form of?
Epiphoneme is the alternative form of epiphonema.

Words near epiphoneme in the dictionary

  1. epiphlœum
  2. Epiphone
  3. epiphonema
  4. epiphonemas
  5. epiphonemata
  6. epiphoneme
  7. epiphonemes
  8. Epiphones
  9. epiphora
  10. epiphoras
  11. epiphragm

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