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Definition of Ploce
1. Noun. (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning.
Definition of Ploce
1. n. A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed."
Definition of Ploce
1. Noun. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploce
Literary usage of Ploce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator by Quintilian (1876)
"ploce ; artful reiteration of words, 41—44. Employment of several words nearly
in the same sense, 45. Pleonasm, 46, 47. Accumulation of different words and ..."
2. Führer Durch Dalmatien by Reinhard E. Petermann (1899)
"Verlässt man Ragusa durch die Porta ploce, so kommt man zunächst in den zwar
düsteren aber interessanten Rayon der stärksten Befestigungen der Stadt, ..."
3. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator by Quintilian (1876)
"ploce ; artful reiteration of words, 41—44. Employment of several words nearly
in the same sense, 45. Pleonasm, 46, 47. Accumulation of different words and ..."
4. Führer Durch Dalmatien by Reinhard E. Petermann (1899)
"Verlässt man Ragusa durch die Porta ploce, so kommt man zunächst in den zwar
düsteren aber interessanten Rayon der stärksten Befestigungen der Stadt, ..."
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