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mempsis

mempsis noun: a figure of speech expressing complaint or seeking help or redress for a wrong or grievance.

Noun

mempsis (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech expressing complaint or seeking help or redress for a wrong or grievance.
    • 2008, Daily Trope: "Mempsis (memp'-sis): Expressing complaint and seeking help. Something is very wrong and it needs a lot of fixing."
    • 1675, Thomas Cock, Miscelanea medica: "A mannerly condescension as this would have better become mempsis than an unmanly disdain."

Synonyms of mempsis

Origin of mempsis

From Ancient Greek μέμψις (mémpsis, “blame, complaint, reproach”), from μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “to blame, to complain”) + -σις (-sis, “-sis”).

Questions about mempsis

What does mempsis mean?
Mempsis means a figure of speech expressing complaint or seeking help or redress for a wrong or grievance.
What part of speech is mempsis?
Mempsis is a noun.

Words near mempsis in the dictionary

  1. Memphites
  2. Memphitic
  3. Memphitical
  4. Memphre
  5. Memphrica
  6. mempsis
  7. memresistance
  8. memresistances
  9. memristance
  10. memristances
  11. memristic

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