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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, a figure by which successive clauses begin with the same word or words or with a word or phrase of similar meaning; epanaphora.
- noun In embryology, same as
epiboly .
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- noun The
irregular recurrence of the sameexpression within averse or successive verses of scripture. Essentially random repetition.
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