Tapinosis
noun
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Noun
- 1 A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits. rhetoric
- 2 (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits. wordnet
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Borrowed from Latin tapīnōsis (“depreciation”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ταπείνωσις (tapeínōsis, “lowering”), from ταπεινός (tapeinós, “low”).
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