traduction.
/traˈdʌktɪəʊ/, U.S. /træˈdəktioʊ/, /træˈdəkʃioʊ/ Rhetoric. Now rare.
Repetition of a word in a different form or sense, or of similar or closely related words, for variation or rhetorical effect. Cf. polyptoton n.Earlier also in form traduction: see traduction n. 4.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > of same word in altered sense
ploce1577
traductio1577
retractation1671
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > of same word in different cases or inflections
polyptotonOE
traductio1577
tranlacer1589
polyptote1671
1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. I.iijv Traductio, when one word is sundry tymes repeated in one sentence, to make the Oration more trimme.
1654 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence 11 Poleptoton or Traductio, is a repetition of words of the same linage, that differ only in termination; as, exceedingly, exceeding.
1875 E. J. Payne Burke's Sel. Wks. II. 297 The word is repeated, by the figure called traductio, in a contemptuous way.
1943 Rev. Eng. Stud. 19 216 Calling Spenser's ‘Of ghostly darkenes, and of gastlie dread’ a weak line: it is a weak line, even if it does illustrate prosonomasia and traductio in combination.
2009 Mod. Lang. Rev. 104 19 By the figure of traductio (‘a sturdy housbonde..continuynge evere in sturdinesse’..) he emphasizes once again the husband's cruelty.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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