† tapinosisn.

Etymology: < Greek ταπείνωσις lowness (of style).

Rhetoric. Obsolete.

(See quots., and cf. diminution n. 2b.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > euphemism > dysphemism

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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 154 If ye abase your thing or matter by ignorance or errour in the choise of your word, then is it by vicious maner of speach called Tapinosis.

c1600 Timon (1980) ii. iv. 32 Pseu...They did obscure the sunne beames with wette clothes. Dem. A Tapinosis or diminution.

1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 57 In Meiosis, the speaker ought to take care that he fall not into that fault of speech, called Tapinosis, humility, that is when the dignity or majesty of a high matter is much defaced by the basenesse of a word; as to call the Ocean a stream, or the Thames a brook.

Derivatives

† tapiˈnotically adv. Obsolete by way of tapinosis.

ΚΠ

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 279 Words diminishing the worth of a thing, Tapinotically.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	tapinosis
释义	† tapinosisn. Etymology: < Greek ταπείνωσις lowness (of style). Rhetoric. Obsolete. (See quots., and cf. diminution n. 2b.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > euphemism > dysphemism abaser1589 tapinosis1589 dysphemism1884 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 154 If ye abase your thing or matter by ignorance or errour in the choise of your word, then is it by vicious maner of speach called Tapinosis. c1600 Timon (1980) ii. iv. 32 Pseu...They did obscure the sunne beames with wette clothes. Dem. A Tapinosis or diminution. 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 57 In Meiosis, the speaker ought to take care that he fall not into that fault of speech, called Tapinosis, humility, that is when the dignity or majesty of a high matter is much defaced by the basenesse of a word; as to call the Ocean a stream, or the Thames a brook. Derivatives † tapiˈnotically adv. Obsolete by way of tapinosis. ΚΠ 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 279 Words diminishing the worth of a thing, Tapinotically. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1589
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