ploce Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning

WordNet


Plo"ce noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. complication, fr. to entwine.
Definitions
  1. (Rhet.) A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed." Bailey.

Webster 1913