Apotreptic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Apotreptic is an adjective meaning Designed to dissuade.
Meaning
Designed to dissuade.
More Meanings
- Rhetoric designed to dissuade.
Example Sentences
The sweeping mock-Catonian attack of Juv. 6, an apotreptic against marriage that quickly turns into a categorical disparagement of women.
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.
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.
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).
Word Forms
- apotreptics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antiseptic, undisparaging, antirhetorical, antiputrefactive, undissuaded, nonpersuasive.
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