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symploces

symploces is the plural 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

Questions about symploces

What is symploces the plural of?
Symploces is the plural of symploce.

Words near symploces in the dictionary

  1. symplesiomorphies
  2. symplesiomorphy
  3. symplesite
  4. symplocaceous
  5. symploce
  6. symploces
  7. symploidy
  8. sympode
  9. sympodes
  10. sympodia
  11. sympodial

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