Homœophony

; equivalent to the + ???? ("sound")

Full definition of homœophony

(uncountable)

(chiefly of two or more words) Phonic similarity; the quality of being similar-sounding.

1845: Plato and Tayler Lewis & comment., Plato Contra Atheos: Plato Against the Atheists, page 203It may be styled euphonic, because it seems to affect words solely for the sake of euphony, or, rather, homœophony, and on the mere ground of contiguity in location, although very remotely related in all other respects; so much so, that, in this way, great violence is sometimes done to the true grammatical construction.
1862, Joseph Francis Thrupp, The Song of Songs: A Revised Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The strongest commendation of the Hebrew reading now submitted for trial as the original is the homœophony it exhibits between the etymologically unconnected words ??????????,‎ ??????, and ???????, and also between ??????? and ????????? (the latter being strictly the past participle from ???, used in the Piel and Hiphil). Such homœophony is in full accordance with the genius of Hebrew poetry: we have a remarkable instance of it in iv. 2, ?????????? and ????????????: see also iv. 4; vi. 2; vii. 2 (3); viii. 6.
1877, Johann Peter Lange; Philip Schaff, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homilectical, with Special Reference to Ministers and Students Chapter Samuel, hither and thither.?It is better to supply “hither” (????? before ???????), which might easily have fallen out from homœophony; or (with the Rabb. and Ges.) read the Inf. Abs. and render “were more and more broken up.”