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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Polyptoton

· Pol·yp·to·ton · IPA /ˌpɑ.ləpˈtoʊ.tɑn/
01 n. A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- “My own heart's heart, an…
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    A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- “My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell.”(Rhet.)