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- noun rhetoric
Tapinosis .
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After the Auancer followeth the abbaser working by wordes and sentences of extenuation or diminution.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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These and such other base wordes do greatly disgrace the thing & the speaker of writer: the Greekes call it [Tapinosis] we the [abbaser].
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After the auancer followeth the abbaser working by wordes and sentences of extenuation or diminution.
whichbe commented on the word abbaser
Giving a name to something which diminishes it in importance. Like calling the Mississippi River a "stream". Also known as tapinosis. (Silva Rhetoricae)
May 17, 2008
gangerh commented on the word abbaser
I think I'll only understand this, whichbe, if you mean calling it a "stream".
May 17, 2008
bilby commented on the word abbaser
See also disphemism.
May 17, 2008