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Epitrope   Listen
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Epitrope  n.  (Rhet.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."





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"Epitrope" Quotes from Famous Books



... [Sidenote: Epitrope.] Permissio, permission, when we shew y^t we geue & gra[un]t any thyng altogether to a mans wyll, thus: Because al thynges tak[en] away, only is left vnto me my body & mynd, these thynges, whych ...
— A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes • Richard Sherry


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