anesis
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek ἄνεσις (ánesis, “loosening, abatement, remission”)
Noun
anesis
- (medicine) Remission of disease symptoms.
- (rhetoric) Addition of a sentence, clause or phrase that diminishes what preceded.
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He was energetic, articulate, popular, and overconfident |
Synonyms
- (rhetoric): abating
Latin
References
- anesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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