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Webster 1913 Edition
Epitrope
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E-pit′ro-pe
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] reference, arbitration, fr. [GREEK] to turn over, to give up, yield;
ἐπί
upon, over + [GREEK] to turn.] (Rhet.)
A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.”
Webster 1828 Edition
Epitrope
EPIT'ROPE
Definition 2024
epitrope
epitrope
English
Noun
epitrope
- (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.
Related terms
- epitropy
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References
- epitrope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Comprehensive Dictionary of the Word, Vol. II Part 1, Thomas Wright