Meanings
- rhetoricuncountableA 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 EloquenceSynonyms: forgiveness, pardon, clemency
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
Origin
- Ancient Greekσυγγνώμη“forgiveness, pardon”
- Englishsyngnome
From Ancient Greek συγγνώμη (sungnṓmē, “forgiveness, pardon”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + γνώμη (gnṓmē, “judgment, understanding”) .
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