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‖ diaporesis Rhet.|ˌdaɪəpɒˈriːsɪs| [mod.L., a. Gr. διαπόρησις a being at a loss, doubting.] A rhetorical figure, in which the speaker profeses to be at a loss, which of two or more courses, statements, etc., to adopt.
1678Phillips, Diaporesis, a doubting, a Rhetorical figure, in which there seems to be a doubt proposed to the audience before whom the Oration is made. [So in later Dicts.] 1844J. W. Gibbs Philol. Studies (1857) 215 Aporia..called also diaporesis. The Latin term is addubitatio. |