anesis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek ἄνεσις (ánesis, “loosening, abatement, remission”)
Noun[edit]
anesis
- (medicine) Remission of disease symptoms.
- (rhetoric) Addition of a sentence, clause or phrase that diminishes what preceded.
Examples (rhetoric) |
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He was energetic, articulate, popular, and overconfident |
Synonyms[edit]
- (rhetoric): abating
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
anesīs
References[edit]
- anesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)