Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπάνοδος (epánodos), from ἐπ- (ep-) + ἀνα- (ana-) + ὁδός (hodós).
epanodos (countable and uncountable, plural epanodoses)
Examples
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- Bible, (2. Cor. 2. 15.16): For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life.
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- (rhetoric) The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 83:By Epanodos the same word moves its place,
Takes first and last and also middle space.
- Recapitulation of the main points in a discourse.