epitrope

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek reference, arbitration.

Noun

epitrope

1. (deprecated template usage) (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.

Related Terms

• epitropy

References

• “epitrope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.