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Gemination
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Gemination
noun
1.
The doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect).
2.
The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something.
Synonym:
duplication
.
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High German we find the form selp-selpo. Here there is the junction of two words, but not the junction of two different ones. This distinguishes composition from
gemination
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— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
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