synchoresis

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noun

A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater power.

OriginAncient Greek συγχώρησις →
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Meanings

nounsynchoresis (uncountable)
  1. archaicrhetoricuncountableA 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

  1. Ancient Greekσυγχώρησις“agreement”
  2. Englishsynchoresis

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

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Chicago

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