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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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