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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ep•a•na•lep•sis (ep′ə nə lep′sis),USA pronunciation n. [Rhet.]- Rhetorica 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.
- 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)
- 1575–85
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