What does adoxographer mean?
Adoxographer means (rhetoric) One who composes adoxography..
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/eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfə/ · noun
(rhetoric) One who composes adoxography..
And here again we have a link to Feste, who, on the night of Epiphany at the last gasp of the Christmas season, not only plays the adoxographer as noted above, but in the guise of Sir Topas the curate, making the more or less sane puritan Malvolio out to be mad […]
Loki proves himself an accomplished sophist – one that may be more precisely defined as an adoxographer (from the Greek, adoxos, meaning "ignoble") who, by rhetorical means, convincingly inverts the presumed categories of noble and ignoble action. It should come as no surprise that the practitioner of such rhetoric here is an angel fallen from grace since, traditionally, those sophists who constitute adoxographers are frequently of the demonic ilk.
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Adoxographer means (rhetoric) One who composes adoxography..
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And here again we have a link to Feste, who, on the night of Epiphany at the last gasp of the Christmas season, not only plays the adoxographer as noted above, but in the guise of Sir Topas the curate, making the more or less sane puritan Malvolio out to be mad […]
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