Today's Word "palilogy"
Published in Vocabulary
palilogy \puh-LIL-uh-jee\ (noun) - The technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis. Also, palillogy.
"In his writing Hugh was fond of summing up with a palilogy, the deliberate repetition of words and grammatical presentations, a sort of parallelism in threes."
From Greek palillogia recapitulation, equivalent to palin again, back + -logia -logy.
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