epiphora

NOUN
  1. repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.

How To Use epiphora In A Sentence

  • Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • We present the case of a 25 year old male who was admitted for the treatment of a swelling in the right lacrimal area with complaints of epiphora.
  • • Clinical symptoms may include severe light sensitivity, epiphora, pain, floaters, loss of vision, and redness of the eye. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • A gaffe that seems far more unfortunate involves Mr.McC. 's rigid distinction between epiphora and epistrophe. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • Two patients had been subject to recurrent dacryocystitis, 3 were subject to epiphora and recurrent dacryocystitis and the others were subject to intolerable epiphora ranging from 6 months to ‘years’.
  • The OED's example is from a seventeenth-century dictionary, whose explanation of epiphora closely parallels the Rev. Peacham's as Mr. Espy quotes it on p. 178. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • But Webster's Third defines epiphora as a watering of the eyes while defining epistrophe as the "repetition of the same word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences ... VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • This results in tears pooling in the cul-de-sac produced by the lower lid ectropion and resultant epiphora.
  • I confirm that Webster's Third defines epiphora as "watering of the eyes," a definition reassuringly similar to the first definition the OED gives for the same term. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • So far, so good -- although the OED's second definition, labeled Rhet., suggests that at least in the past epiphora did mean "a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses" (if I may quote from Mr.McC. 's letter again). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
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