Trugrede
Trugrede noun: oratory designed to mislead its audience; a speech of deception.
Noun
Trugrede (plural Trugredes)
- Oratory designed to mislead its audience; a speech of deception
- […] the majority of scholars seem to agree that the speech [Ajax's speech in lines 646–692 of Sophocles' Ajax] really is a Trugrede, a speech of deception. Ajax has no intention of yielding but must deceive his friends in order to complete his heroic death.1991, Charles Segal, “Ajax”, in Tragedy and Civilization
- […] Iris' disguise, by Juno's order, as the Trojan Beroe and her Trugrede to the Trojan women to persuade them to burn the Trojan ships at [Aeneid] 5.605–6632008, Lucia Prauscello, “Juno's Wrath Again: Some Virgilian Echoes in Ovid, Met. 3.253–315”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 58, number 2
Proper noun
Trugrede
- Specifically, Ajax's monologue from lines 646–692 of Sophocles' play Ajax
- Für das Verstehen des Dramas ist zweifellos seine umstrittenste Partie wesentlich, die berühmte Rede, die das ganze zweite Epeisodion ausmacht und die unter dem Namen "Trugrede" bekannt ist (646–92).1968, Martin Sicherl, Die Tragik des Aias
Forms of Trugrede
| plural | Trugredes |
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Origin of Trugrede
Unadapted borrowing from German Trugrede, from Trug (“deception”) + Rede (“speech”).
Questions about Trugrede
- What does Trugrede mean?
- Trugrede means oratory designed to mislead its audience; a speech of deception.
- What part of speech is Trugrede?
- Trugrede can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of Trugrede?
- The plural of Trugrede is Trugredes.
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