Pseudocompliment
noun
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Noun
- 1 Alternative form of pseudo-compliment. alt-of, alternative
"This time, however, the true valuation of the two poets — disguised in the former poem by a pseudocompliment to Ponticus and ironic self-effacement on Propertius' part — is out in the open from the beginning […]"
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More examples"This time, however, the true valuation of the two poets — disguised in the former poem by a pseudocompliment to Ponticus and ironic self-effacement on Propertius' part — is out in the open from the beginning […]"
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