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Definition of Polyptoton
1. Noun. Repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence. "My own heart's heart"
Definition of Polyptoton
1. n. A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."
Definition of Polyptoton
1. Noun. (rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which words from the same root are used together, or a word is repeated in a different inflection or case. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Polyptoton
1. A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc, as in Tennyson's line, "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell." Origin: L, fr. Gr. Having, or being in, many cases; many + case. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Polyptoton
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)
"polyptoton and metabole, 37—40. Ploce ; artful reiteration of words, 41—44.
Employment of several words nearly in the same sense, 45. Pleonasm, 46, 47. ..."
2. Tropes and Figures in Anglo-Saxon Prose by James Waddell Tupper (1897)
"If the difference in the words is effected by the case-endings or other inflections,
the repetition is called polyptoton, if by derivative forms, ..."
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