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Reduplication n.

The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

(Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.

(Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.

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Etymology of 'Reduplication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... that the right way to propagate plants is by means of seedlings. Strictly speaking, indeed, it is the only way; the other modes of growth from bulbs or cuttings are not really propagation, but mere reduplication by splitting, as when you chop a worm in two, and a couple of worms wriggle off contentedly forthwith in either direction. Just so when you divide a plant by cuttings, suckers, slips, or runners; the two apparent plants thus produced ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... the most universal sense of the word; and the pleasure resulting from the manner in which they express the influence of society or nature upon their own minds, communicates itself to others, and gathers a sort of reduplication from that community. Their language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which represent them, become, through time, signs for portions or classes of thoughts instead of pictures of integral ...

— English literary criticism • Various

Words linked to "Reduplication" : word, repetition, reiteration, syllable, anadiplosis