epitrope
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“reference, arbitration”).
Noun edit
epitrope (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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References 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]