Polyptoton

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  • n. A stylistic scheme in which words from the same root are used together, or a word is repeated in a different inflection or case.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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, and ownest own, farewell.”
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In rhetoric, a figure consisting in the use of different cases or inflections of the same word, or of words of the same immediate derivation, in the same context.
  • n. (Unless the death of Death had brought death to death by [his] death, the door of eternal life would have been closed.)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence
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    repetition    ploce   
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