epanorthosis

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  1. In rhetoric, a figure consisting in immediate revocation of a word or statement in order to correct, justify, mitigate, or intensify it, usually the last: as, “Most brave act. Brave, did I say? Most heroic act.” Also called epidiorthosis.

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  1. Late Latin, from Greek ἐπανόρθωσις, a correction, from ἐπανορθόειν, set up again, restore, correct, from ἐπί, upon, to, + ἀνορθόειν, set up again, from ἀνά, up, + ὀρθόειν, make straight, from ὀρθός, straight.
 

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