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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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