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Antanaclasis

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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