Paromologia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument. rhetoric, uncountable

    "Refusing to admit the grain of truth in their opponents' arguments is how they squandered their own political power; a smart amount of paromologia might have preserved it."

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paromology

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"Refusing to admit the grain of truth in their opponents' arguments is how they squandered their own political power; a smart amount of paromologia might have preserved it."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παρομολογία (paromología, “partial admission”), from παρα- (para-) + ὁμολογία (homología).

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