epiphora
NounSynonyms:
epistrophe
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.Synonyms: epistropheType of repetition
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
E·piph′o·ra noun
Origin: L., fr. Gr. ἐπιφορά, fr. ἐπιφέρειν to bring to or upon; ἐπί + φέρειν to bring.
1. Medicine The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.
2. Rhetoric The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54