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Thesaurus: antanaclasis
A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
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- n. A word/figure">figure which word/consists">consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
- n. A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.
- (a) A word/figure">figure which word/consists">consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. (b) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.