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characterismus

characterismus noun: the rhetorical enargia used to describe a person.

Noun

characterismus (uncountable)

  1. The rhetorical enargia used to describe a person.
    • In a considerable body of passages of characterismus, Spenser presents a detailed portrait of Britomart's heart and soul an anatomy of her passions.1975, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 7268
    • Therefore, in respect to characterismus the majority of observations made by the television-evangelists describe the mental rather than physical state.1983, Danny Lee Alexander, A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Television Sermons, page 68

Questions about characterismus

What does characterismus mean?
Characterismus means the rhetorical enargia used to describe a person.
What part of speech is characterismus?
Characterismus is a noun.

Words near characterismus in the dictionary

  1. characterisers
  2. characterises
  3. characterising
  4. characterism
  5. characterisms
  6. characterismus
  7. characterist
  8. characteristic
  9. characteristic function
  10. characteristic functions
  11. characteristic polynomial

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