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epizeuxes

epizeuxes is the plural of epizeuxis.

Meaning of epizeuxis

Noun

epizeuxis (countable and uncountable, plural epizeuxes)

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.
    • An Epizeuxis twice a word repeats,
      And graces thus the theme on which it treats.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epizeuxis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 78

Questions about epizeuxes

What is epizeuxes the plural of?
Epizeuxes is the plural of epizeuxis.

Words near epizeuxes in the dictionary

  1. epivolkenin
  2. epixylic
  3. epixylous
  4. epizeugma
  5. epizeugmenon
  6. epizeuxes
  7. epizeuxis
  8. epizoa
  9. epizoan
  10. epizoans
  11. epizoanthid

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