pseudocompliment

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pseudocompliment (plural pseudocompliments)

  1. Alternative form of pseudo-compliment
    • 1985, Hans-Peter Stahl, Propertius: "love" and "war", page 61:
      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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