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单词 paromologia
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paromologian.

Brit. /ˌparəməˈləʊdʒɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌpɛrəməˈloʊdʒ(i)ə/
Forms: 1500s 1900s– paramologia, 1600s 1900s– paromologia, 1800s– paromology (in dictionaries).
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek παρομολογία.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek παρομολογία partial admission, a rhetorical figure (recorded as a Greek word in classical Latin authors) < ancient Greek παρα- para- prefix1 + ὁμολογία homology n. Compare French paromologie (1765).
Rhetoric.
The figure of partial admission; a strategy in debate in which minor points are conceded to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own position. Cf. epitrope n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > concession made to strengthen own case
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1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. S.jv Paramologia, when we graunt many things to our aduersaryes, and at the last bringe in one thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 190 The good Orator vseth a manner of speach in his perswasion..much vsed by our English pleaders in the Starchamber and Chancery. [Side note] Paramologia, or the figure of admittance.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 115 Sometimes we confesse that which will not prejudice us; and this is called Paromologia, confession: as, I grant that they are resolute, but it is..to their own undoing.
1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 570 Paromologia: accepting an objection, then pointing out that it holds more strongly against the adversary.
1985 Hist. & Theory 24 13 Repeatedly, he uses paramológia, that is, conceding a minor point the better to achieve a larger.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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