homeoteleuton

noun /ˌhəʊmiˌəʊtəˈluːtən/

1. The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.

   With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.

   Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime

2. The accidental omission when copying a text, of text between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words in between.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry homeoteleuton (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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