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simploce

simploce is the dated form of symploce.

Meaning of symploce

Noun

symploce (plural symploces)

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
    • Symploce sometimes Anaphora will join
      With Epistrophe, and both in one combine.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Symploce.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 77

Forms of simploce

pluralsimploces

Questions about simploce

What is simploce the dated form of?
Simploce is the dated form of symploce.

Words near simploce in the dictionary

  1. simplistic
  2. simplistically
  3. simplisticness
  4. simplists
  5. simplity
  6. simploce
  7. simploces
  8. simplotite
  9. simply
  10. simply connected
  11. Simpocan

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