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- noun rhetoric A
figure of speech whereby something is given lessimportance by the name given it than it merits.
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From Latin tăpīnōsis ("depreciation"), from Ancient Greek τᾰπείνωσις (tapeinosis, "lowering"), from ταπείνωσις (tapeinos, "low")
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