English

Noun

dilogy ‎(plural dilogies)

1. Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
2. Repetition of a word or phrase.
3. A series of two related works
   • 1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 167

     why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama

   • 1983, Studies in Aeschylus, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, page 189

     another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy

   • 2012, A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qaGj75K2Q9oC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq="dilogy" Page 71]

     Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839)

Synonyms

• (two related works): duology (nonstandard)

Related terms

• trilogy (3)
• tetralogy (4)
• pentalogy (5)
• hexalogy (6)
• heptalogy (7)
• octalogy (8)
• ennealogy (9)
• decalogy (10)
• polylogy (2+)

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