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单词 epanalepsis
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epanalepsis

[ ep-uh-nuh-lep-sis ]
/ ˌɛp ə nəˈlɛp sɪs /

noun Rhetoric.

a repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition, sometimes occurring with a phrase used both at the beginning and end of a sentence, as in Only the poor really know what it is to suffer; only the poor.

Origin of epanalepsis

1575–85; <Greek epanálēpsis literally, resumption, taking up again, equivalent to ep-ep- + ana-ana- + lêpsis taking hold (lēp-, variant stem of lambánein to take + -sis-sis)

Words nearby epanalepsis

EP, EPA, epact, epagoge, Epaminondas, epanalepsis, epanaphora, epanodos, epanorthosis, eparch, eparchy
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British Dictionary definitions for epanalepsis

epanalepsis
/ (ɪˌpænəˈlɛpsɪs) /

noun

rhetoric the repetition, after a more or less lengthy passage of subordinate or parenthetic text, of a word or clause that was used before

Derived forms of epanalepsis

epanaleptic, adjective

Word Origin for epanalepsis

C16: from Greek, from epi- + ana- + lēpis taking, from lambanein to take up
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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