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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπάνοδος (epánodos), from ἐπ- (ep-) + ἀνα- (ana-) + ὁδός (hodós).
Noun
epanodos (countable and uncountable, plural epanodoses)
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- Bible, (2. Cor. 2. 15.16): For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life.
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- (rhetoric) The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
Langley,
A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, , Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate,
→OCLC,
page 83:
By Epanodos the same word moves its place,
Takes first and last and also middle space.]
- Recapitulation of the main points in a discourse.