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epitherapeia

epitherapeia noun: a sentence added at the end of a statement to heal, soften, mitigate, or modify what has been said, so that modesty or other feeling might not be offended.

Noun

epitherapeia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A sentence added at the end of a statement to heal, soften, mitigate, or modify what has been said, so that modesty or other feeling might not be offended.

Origin of epitherapeia

From Ancient Greek ἐπιθεραπεία (epitherapeía, “additional remedy”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + θεραπεία (therapeía, “medical attendance, healing”).

Questions about epitherapeia

What does epitherapeia mean?
Epitherapeia means a sentence added at the end of a statement to heal, soften, mitigate, or modify what has been said, so that modesty or other feeling might not be offended.
What part of speech is epitherapeia?
Epitherapeia is a noun.

Words near epitherapeia in the dictionary

  1. epitheme
  2. epithemes
  3. epithems
  4. epitheories
  5. epitheory
  6. epitherapeia
  7. epithermal
  8. Epitherses
  9. epitheses
  10. epithesis
  11. epithet

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