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epitropy

epitropy is the alternative form of epitrope.

Meaning of epitrope

Noun

epitrope (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.

Questions about epitropy

What is epitropy the alternative form of?
Epitropy is the alternative form of epitrope.

Words near epitropy in the dictionary

  1. epitrochleas
  2. epitrochoid
  3. epitrochoidal
  4. epitrochoids
  5. epitrope
  6. epitropy
  7. epitube
  8. epituberculosis
  9. epituberculous
  10. epitubes
  11. epityche

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epitropy (page history and authors); epitrope (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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