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reduplication |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reduplication \Re*du`pli*ca"tion\ (-k?sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]duplication, L. reduplicatio repetition.] 1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled. 2. (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse. 3. (Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also the syllable thus added; as L. tetuli poposci From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reduplication n : an act of duplicating
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