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Meaning of ANTANACLASIS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ant`an*a*cla"sis\, n. [Gr. ?; ? + ? 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.
 
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