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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In rhetoric, the employment of rebuke or reproaches, in order to produce an oratorical effect, as when a speaker seeks to rouse a legislative or popular assembly and impel it to decided action: accounted by some a figure. Also called epitimesis.

Wiktionary

  1. n. rhetoric A rhetorical figure seeking to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rhet.) A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them

Etymologies

  1. Latin reproof, from Ancient Greek to strike at, reprove. (Wiktionary)

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