The act of doubling.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
2. A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
3. The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Imitation Roget’s Thesaurus §19
N. imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo|, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate
V. imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat, do like, echo, reecho, catch, transcribe, match, parallel, mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate, act, represent, counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque, follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of, take pattern by, follow suit, follow the example of, walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit, take after, model after, emulate
Adj. imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking
Adv. literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely
Phr. like master like man, "like - but oh! how different!", "genius borrows nobly", "pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks", "quotation confesses inferiority", "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
Duplication Roget’s Thesaurus §90
Adj. double, doubled, bicipital, bicephalous, bidental, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular, bifold, biform, bilateral, bifarious, bifacial, twofold, two- sided, disomatous, duplex, double-faced, double-headed, twin, duplicate, ingeminate, second
Adv. twice, once more, over again, as much again, twofold, secondly, in the second place, again
No Bible verses found for "Reduplication".