Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, rejection of an argument, with professed scorn or impatience, as irrelevant.
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- noun rhetoric, obsolete Emphatic rejection or dismissal of an opponent or an opposing proposition.
Etymologies
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From Latin, from ἀποδίωξις (apodiōksis), from Ancient Greek ἀποδιώκειν (apodiōkein, "to drive away")
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