Hypostrophe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hypostrophe is a noun meaning (medicine, obsolete) The act of a patient turning himself or herself.
Meaning
(medicine, obsolete) The act of a patient turning himself or herself.
More Meanings
- (medicine, obsolete) A relapse; a return of a disease.
- (rhetoric) A return to the main theme following an insertion or parenthesis.
Example Sentences
Whenever the temperature remains elevated, however slightly, and generally when the temperature rises still more, we may confidently assume that the healing process is yet incomplete, or that a fresh malady, a sequela, or a hypostrophe is being developed.
In addition, the initial σὺ of line 14 completes the series in 6 and 12, providing an extended epanaphora through the mid-section of II, and supplies a slight hypostrophe (catches up the thread of the narrative after a parenthesis and makes a fresh start by either repeating the subject or adding a demonstrative) after the trinitarian parenthesis of 12–13.
Word Forms
- hypostrophes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include apostemation, analepsis, sinistration, representation, turning, self-administration.
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