Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, remission or abatement of the symptoms of a disease.
- n. In music: The progression from a high sound to one lower in pitch.
- n. The tuning of strings to a lower pitch: opposed to epitasis.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine Remission of disease symptoms.
- n. rhetoric Addition of a sentence, clause or phrase that diminishes what preceded.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἄνεσις (anesis, "loosening, abatement, remission") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“[38] But anesis and aphesis in I.Esd. iv. 62 looks like a word-play in what may not be original Greek; though a Semitic original of that section of I.Esd. (iii. 1 to v. 6) is by no means proved.”
““after a short time there was an abatement of evils,” being of opinion that the {anesis kakon} lasted about eight years.”
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Rhetorical Devices
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Words to remember
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