| 释义 |
‖ accismus Rhet.|ækˈsɪzməs|
[med. or mod.L., a. Gr. ἀκκισµός coyness, affectation.]
A feigned refusal of that which is earnestly desired.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Cromwell's refusal of the crown..may be brought as an instance of an Accismus. 1876tr. Richter's Levana iv. iv. 89. 243 A woman uses no figure of eloquence—her own, at most, excepted—so often as that of accismus. |