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noun
- Also called epiphora. Rhetoric. the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences, as in “I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong. …”Compare anaphora(def 1).
- Neoplatonism. the realization by an intellect of its remoteness from the One.
noun
- rhetoric repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
1640s, from Late Latin epistrophe, from Greek epistrophe “a turning about,” from epi “upon” (see epi-) + strophe “a turning” (see strophe).