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单词 epistrophe
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epistrophe

[ ih-pis-truh-fee ]
/ ɪˈpɪs trə fi /

noun

Also called epiphora. Rhetoric. the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences, as in “I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong. …”Compare anaphora (def. 1).
Philosophy. (in Neoplatonism) the realization by an intellect of its remoteness from the One.

Origin of epistrophe

First recorded in 1640–50; from New Latin, from Greek epistrophḗ; see epi-, strophe

Words nearby epistrophe

epistolary novel, epistoler, epistolic, epistolize, epistolography, epistrophe, epistropheus, epistyle, episyllogism, epit., epitaph
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British Dictionary definitions for epistrophe

epistrophe
/ (ɪˈpɪstrəfɪ) /

noun

rhetoric repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

Word Origin for epistrophe

C17: New Latin, from Greek, from epi- + strophē a turning
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