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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Antanaclasis \Ant`an*a*cla"sis\, n. [Gr. ?; 'anti`/ +
     'ana`klasis a bending back and breaking. See {Anaclastic}.]
     (Rhet.)
     (a) 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.


     (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.
         [1913 Webster]

















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