Ploce

2 definitions found

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

  Ploce \Plo"ce\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? complication, fr. ? to
     entwine.] (Rhet.)
     A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of
     emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing
     denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality;
     as, "His wife's a wife indeed." --Bailey.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ploce
       n : (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend
           meaning