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‖ parrhesia Rhet.|pəˈriːzɪə, -ˈriːsɪə|
Also 6 parresia, parisia; in 7 anglicized as ˈparrhesy.
[Late L. parrhēsia (Isidore Orig. ii. 20), a. Gr. παρρησία free-spokenness, frankness, f. παρα- beside, beyond + ῥῆσις speech.]
Frankness or freedom of speech.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 90 Parresia, or liberty to speake, when by winning of curtesie to our speech we seeke to auoide any offence therein, as thus: Pardon if I be tedious. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 234 Parisia, or the Licentious. 1659Gauden Tears of Ch. iii. iv. 274 An honest and innocent parrhesy, or freedome of speaking, such as becomes the Messenger of heaven. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Parrhesia, liberty in speaking; in Rhetorick it is a figure in which we speak boldly, and freely, in things displeasing, and obnoxious to envy. 1893Ch. Times 27 Oct. 1090, I..do not the less admire the womanly sweetness and beauty of characters like Perdita and Miranda because of their occasional parrhesia. |