Pronounced: VAN-word, adj
Notes: You might know the meaning; I didn’t
Yesterday’s word
The word epanalepsis is “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated after intervening text”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
There is a Bible phrase that I believe fits our word: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. One of the examples given is “The king is dead; long live the king!” Our word came from the Greek word epanalepsis, which is made of epi- (upon) and ana- (back) and lepsis (taking hold).
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