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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, a figure by which an orator concedes something to an adversary in order to strengthen his own argument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.
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- noun rhetoric A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.
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