adnomination

plural adnominations

1. countableuncountableA form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.

   In strophe D, the repetition of the stem אבל produces alliteration and can be described as adnomination (the repetition of words with the same root).

   2013, PJ Botha, “Psalm 53 in canonical perspective”, in Old Testament Essays

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   The flurry of adnomination (varying a "root" term with prefixes and suffixes, as "luminous," by a kind of home etymology, is turned into "voluminous") — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce...

   1994, Mary Kinzie, The judge is fury: dislocation and form in poetry, page 138

   Characteristically, a rhetorical figure called “adnomination” is used, which repeats noun root in verb root or vice versa (for ex . “passing without passport” or “Slaves of the bourgeois class, daily and hourly enslaved”) .

   2013, Darko Suvin, In Leviathan's Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time, →ISBN