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Gemination

noun
1.
The doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect).
2.
The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something.  Synonym: duplication.





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"Gemination" Quotes from Famous Books



... High German we find the form selp-selpo. Here there is the junction of two words, but not the junction of two different ones. This distinguishes composition from gemination. ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham


Words linked to "Gemination" :   repetition, copying, geminate


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