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What does antanaclasis mean?

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  1. (rhetoric) The repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun.
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In Cicero's treatise on Oratory, a variety of instances of the antanaclasis are quoted, and highly praised by him for their wit.

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