Rhet. [L., a. Gr. ἀναδίπλωσις, n. of action f. ἀναδιπλό-εσθαι to be doubled back, f. ἀνά back + διπλό-ειν to double, f. διπλό-ος double.] Reduplication; the beginning of a sentence, line, or clause with the concluding, or any prominent, word of the one preceding.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 210. As thus: Comforte it is for man to haue a wife, Wife chast, and wise … The Greeks call this figure Anadiplosis, I call him the Redouble.
1681. Hobbes, Rhet., IV. iv. 148. A Redoubling called Anadyplosis as, ‘The Lord also will be a refuge to the poor, a refuge, I say in due time.’
a. 1791. Wesley, in Wks., 1872, XIII. 524. In an anadiplosis the word repeated is pronounced the second time louder and stronger than the first.
