Epitrope
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Epitrope is a noun meaning (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.
Meaning
(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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include epitropy, epiphora, epiploce, ampliatio, epimone, paromologia.
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