ploce
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaningType of repetition
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Plo′ce noun
Origin: L., fr. Gr. … complication, fr. … to entwine.
Rhetoric A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, “His wife's a wife indeed.” Nathan Bailey
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54