ploce

Noun

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Noun (1)

  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

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