epitrope
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“reference, arbitration”).
Noun
editepitrope (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.
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editReferences
edit- “epitrope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Comprehensive Dictionary of the Word, Vol. II Part 1, Thomas Wright [1]