Did you mayhaps mean one of these? abase, abased, abbas, abuser
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- n. rhetoric Tapinosis.
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“After the Auancer followeth the abbaser working by wordes and sentences of extenuation or diminution.”
“These and such other base wordes do greatly disgrace the thing & the speaker of writer: the Greekes call it [Tapinosis] we the [abbaser].”
“After the auancer followeth the abbaser working by wordes and sentences of extenuation or diminution.”
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bilby See also disphemism. May 17, 2008
gangerh I think I'll only understand this, whichbe, if you mean calling it a "stream". May 16, 2008
whichbe Giving a name to something which diminishes it in importance. Like calling the Mississippi River a "stream". Also known as tapinosis. (Silva Rhetoricae) May 16, 2008