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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Antanaclasis \Ant`an*a*cla"sis\, n. [Gr. ?; 'anti`/ +
   'ana`klasis a bending back and breaking. See Anaclastic.]
   (Rhet.)
   (a) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a
       different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that
       when old you may live without craft.
   (b) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long
       parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels
       them, but which has all motions of life placed in them),
       shall that heart, etc.
       [1913 Webster]

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