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apotreptics

apotreptics is the plural of apotreptic.

Meaning of apotreptic

Noun

apotreptic (plural apotreptics)

  1. Rhetoric designed to dissuade.
    • The sweeping mock-Catonian attack of Juv. 6, an apotreptic against marriage that quickly turns into a categorical disparagement of women.2001, Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 253

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Questions about apotreptics

What is apotreptics the plural of?
Apotreptics is the plural of apotreptic.

Words near apotreptics in the dictionary

  1. apotracheal
  2. apotransaminase
  3. apotransaminases
  4. apotransferrin
  5. apotreptic
  6. apotreptics
  7. apotropaia
  8. apotropaic
  9. apotropaic eye
  10. apotropaically
  11. apotropaics

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