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paromology Rhet.|pærəʊˈmɒlədʒɪ|
Chiefly in L. form paromologia.
[ad. Gr. παροµολογία partial admission, f. παρ(α- subsidiary + ὁµολογία agreement, admission, homology.]
A rhetorical figure in which something is conceded to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own position.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 97 Paramologia, where we grant one or more things meet to be marked or alledged, and forthwith doe inferre thereupon sufficient whereby to ouerthrow it. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 115 Sometimes we confesse that which will not prejudice us; and this is called Paromologia, confession: as, I grant that they are resolute, but..to their own undoing. 1864Webster, Paromology: so in later Dicts.
So † paromoloˈgetic a. [f. Gr. παροµολογεῖν to admit], of the nature of an admission.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 292 Figurative expressions..paradoxical, paramologetick, paradiastolary. |