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dormitive virtues

dormitive virtues is the plural of dormitive virtue.

Meaning of dormitive virtue

Noun

dormitive virtue (plural dormitive virtues)

  1. (idiomatic, rhetoric) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
    • The inevitable next suggestion -— that aesthetic experience is distinguished not by pleasure at all but by a special aesthetic emotion can be dropped on the waste-pile of "dormitive virtue” explanations1968, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, American Philosophical Association, page 6

Questions about dormitive virtues

What is dormitive virtues the plural of?
Dormitive virtues is the plural of dormitive virtue.

Words near dormitive virtues in the dictionary

  1. dormitions
  2. dormitive
  3. dormitive principle
  4. dormitive principles
  5. dormitive virtue
  6. dormitive virtues
  7. dormitives
  8. dormitoria
  9. dormitories
  10. dormitorium
  11. dormitoriums

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