adoxographer

Noun

adoxographer (plural adoxographers)

1. (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 […]2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the...
   • 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...2008, T. Ross Leasure, “Spenser's Diabolical Orator and Milton's 'Man of Hell'”, in Christophe Tournu, editor, Milton in France, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 167