polyptoton
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Noun (1)
- repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence“polyptoton such as ‘my own heart's heart’”Type of repetition
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pol′yp·to′ton noun
Origin: L., fr. Gr. … having, or being in, many cases; πολύς many + … case.
Rhetoric A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, — “My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell.”
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54