epiplexis
English
Etymology
Latin [Term?] (“reproof”), from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to strike at, reprove”).
Noun
epiplexis
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure seeking to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for epiplexis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)