epizeuxis

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English

Etymology

From modern Latin epizeuxis, from Ancient Greek ἐπίζευξις (epízeuxis, “a fastening upon”), from ἐπιζευγνύναι (epizeugnúnai), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + ζευγνύναι (zeugnúnai, “to yoke”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɛpɪˈz(j)uːksɪs/
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Noun

Examples
  • "O horror, horror, horror!"
    Shakespeare, Macbeth (II iii.)

epizeuxis (countable and uncountable, plural epizeuxes)

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.
    • 1835, L Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, , Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 78:
      An Epizeuxis twice a word repeats,
      And graces thus the theme on which it treats.
    • 2020 February 17, Richard Cooke, “Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet”, in Wired:
      Wikipedia weds this ranging interest to the kind of pertinence where Larry David's “Pretty, pretty good!” is given as an example of rhetorical epizeuxis.
    • 2022, Clive Bloom, The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins, page 39:
      'O horror, horror, horror', Macduff cries, his epizeuxis reflecting a lack in the symbolic order itself.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épizeuxis.

Noun

epizeuxis n (uncountable)

  1. epizeuxis

Declension

declension of epizeuxis (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) epizeuxis epizeuxisul
genitive/dative (unui) epizeuxis epizeuxisului
vocative epizeuxisule
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