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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Plo·ce n.  Rhet. A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, “His wife's a wife indeed.”
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ploce
      n : (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend
          meaning