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synchoresis

synchoresis noun: a concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater power.

Noun

synchoresis (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, rhetoric) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater power.
    • Oft Synchoresis will a point concede,
      That other points with greater weight may plead.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Synchoresis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 65

Origin of synchoresis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συγχώρησις (sunkhṓrēsis, “agreement”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + χωρέω (khōréō, “withdraw”).

Questions about synchoresis

What does synchoresis mean?
Synchoresis means a concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater power.
What part of speech is synchoresis?
Synchoresis is a noun.

Words near synchoresis in the dictionary

  1. synchondrosial
  2. synchondrosially
  3. synchondrosis
  4. synchondrotic
  5. synchondrotomy
  6. synchoresis
  7. synchorial
  8. synchreses
  9. synchresis
  10. synchro
  11. synchro-

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