Concessio

//kənˈsɛsi.əʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it. rhetoric, uncountable

    "This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents."

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concession

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"This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin concessiō. Doublet of concession.

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