Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In rhetoric, a figure by which one commits or concedes something to others. Especially— Professed readiness to leave one's cause entirely to judge, jury, or audience, in order to express entire confidence in its justice, or to excite compassion.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.”
Etymologies
- Latin, from Ancient Greek reference, arbitration. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“V. -- I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity --”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘epitrope’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
ephod, epact, eozoic, eonism, ensiform, ensanguine, enoptromancy, enounce, enosimania, ennomic, enneagon, eolith and 616 more...
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Rhetorical Devices
trope, wellerism, antimetabole, syncope, open-list, accismus, abating, abbaser, abecedarian, abcisio, ablatio, abominatio and 425 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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The Pits
armpit, pit, pits, cockpit, pity, pithy, pit bull terrier, pit boss, pit stop, pitcher, fire pit, peach pit and 76 more...
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Tropes
trope, tropes, heliotrope, tightrope, footrope, Saint-Tropez, retroperitoneal, allotrope, dextropedal, azeotrope, neutropenia, chromatrope and 27 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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trogein
Greek - to gnaw
trout, begnaw, grate, trogon, royne, knaw, corrade, champ, knab, fret, chew, hyperactual and 1 more...
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epeolatrist (n) to turn over, to give up, to yield
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."
Feb 9, 2009