ploce

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Examples (rhetoric)
In that great victory, Caesar was Caesar! Make war upon themselves - brother to brother / Blood to blood, self against self. - Richard III, by Shakespeare Let the staff be staff, and let Reagan be Reagan.

From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (ploke, “complication”).

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ˈplɒsiː

ploce (plural ploces)

(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.