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homeoteleutons

homeoteleutons is the plural of homeoteleuton.

Meaning of homeoteleuton

Noun

homeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
    • Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime
      With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Homeoteleuton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 91
  2. The accidental omission when copying a text, of text between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words in between.

Questions about homeoteleutons

What is homeoteleutons the plural of?
Homeoteleutons is the plural of homeoteleuton.

Words near homeoteleutons in the dictionary

  1. homeostenosis
  2. homeostenotic
  3. homeosynaptic
  4. homeoteleuta
  5. homeoteleuton
  6. homeoteleutons
  7. homeotherapeutic
  8. homeotherapy
  9. homeotherm
  10. homeothermal
  11. homeothermic

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