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syngnome

syngnome noun: a figure of speech in which the speaker shows mercy, clemency, or forgiveness to an adversary or offender, often in a context of having suffered injury or injustice.

Noun

syngnome (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which the speaker shows mercy, clemency, or forgiveness to an adversary or offender, often in a context of having suffered injury or injustice.
    • Syngnome in latin called Ignocentia, is a form of speech by which the Orator or speaker being a patient of many and great injuries, or of some one great and greevous wrong, pronounceth pardon and forgivenesse to his adversary, who was the worker of all his miserie.1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

Synonyms of syngnome

Origin of syngnome

From Ancient Greek συγγνώμη (sungnṓmē, “forgiveness, pardon”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + γνώμη (gnṓmē, “judgment, understanding”) .

Questions about syngnome

What does syngnome mean?
Syngnome means a figure of speech in which the speaker shows mercy, clemency, or forgiveness to an adversary or offender, often in a context of having suffered injury or injustice.
What part of speech is syngnome?
Syngnome is a noun.

Words near syngnome in the dictionary

  1. syngnathid
  2. syngnathids
  3. syngnathiform
  4. syngnathiforms
  5. syngnathous
  6. syngnome
  7. syngraft
  8. syngrafts
  9. syngraph
  10. syngraphs
  11. synharmonic

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