What does apotreptic mean?
Apotreptic means Designed to dissuade..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Designed to dissuade..
The original sacrifice of the lamb in the land of Egypt was chiefly designed...to avert that judgement (viz. the death of the first-born) from the Israelites...but the annual passover...was rather a commemoration of the deliverance of the Israelites from that calamity, than an apotreptic sacrifice.
The story of Prometheus provides the introduction to the protreptic part of the poem (the exhortation to work), the story of the world-periods introduces the apotreptic part (the admonition to avoid wrongdoing).
He draws out the purificatory implications of Apollo's apotreptic intervention when an uneasy feeling rises from the mantic spirit within him to meet the voice of the god.
The personalisation of Poggio's material by the fiction that the Lucían and Valerius Maximus passages were part of a successful apotreptic by his father to stop two young Sienese from entering courtly life contains another significant reminder of Poggio's De infelicitate principum.
The sweeping mock-Catonian attack of Juv. 6, an apotreptic against marriage that quickly turns into a categorical disparagement of women.
Each category [of rhetoric] is sub-divided: symbouliutic into protreptic and apotreptic, dicanic into prosecution and defence..., and epideictic into praise and blame or dispraise.
Use apotreptic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Apotreptic means Designed to dissuade..
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The original sacrifice of the lamb in the land of Egypt was chiefly designed...to avert that judgement (viz. the death of the first-born) from the Israelites...but the annual passover...was rather a commemoration of the deliverance of the Israelites from that calamity, than an apotreptic sacrifice.
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