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Meaning of EPIZEUXIS

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ep`i*zeux"is\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a fastening
together, repetition, fr. ? to fasten to or upon; 'epi` upon
+ ? to join, yoke.] (Rhet.)
A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or
emphasis, as in the following lines:

      Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea.
                                               --Coleridge.

 

 

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