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palilogy (puh-LIL-uh-jee) noun
The technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis. Also, palillogy. [From Greek palillogia recapitulation, equivalent to palin again, back + -logia -logy.] "What Highet calls a tricolon we may today call a palilogy, the deliberate repetition of words and grammatical presentations, a sort of parallelism in threes." Bret L. Keeling, H.D. and `The Contest': archaeology of a Sapphic gaze, Twentieth Century Literature, Jun 22, 1998. Correction: The quotation for last Monday had wrong attribution. It should have been: Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989) [A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, 1989] This week's theme: words about words. ............................................................................. Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -Steven Wright, comedian (1955- ) Looking for a word previously featured in AWAD? An alphabetical index is available at http://wordsmith.org/awad/wordlist.html . For the chronological archives, visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html . Send mail to wsmith@wordsmith.org to get archives by email. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/palilogy.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/palilogy.ram
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