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Webster 1913 Edition
anaphora
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a-naph′o-ra
(ȧ-năf′ō̍-rȧ)
, Noun.
[L., fr. Gr.
ἀναφορά
, fr. ἀναφέρειν
to carry up or back; ἀνά
+ φέρειν
to carry.] (Rhet.)
1.
A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Webster 1828 Edition
Anaphora
ANAPH'ORA
,Noun.
1.
A figure in rhetoric, when the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more succeeding verses or clauses of a sentence; as, 'Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world?'2.
Among physicians, the discharge of blood or purulent matter by the mouth.