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n. - Repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.

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  • A gaffe that seems far more unfortunate involves Mr.McC. 's rigid distinction between epiphora and epistrophe.
  • • Clinical symptoms may include severe light sensitivity, epiphora, pain, floaters, loss of vision, and redness of the eye.
  • Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.
  • The OED's example is from a seventeenth-century dictionary, whose explanation of epiphora closely parallels the Rev. Peacham's as Mr. Espy quotes it on p. 178.
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