1 definition found 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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