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† tapiˈnosis Rhet. Obs.
[ad. Gr. ταπείνωσις lowness (of style).]
(See quots., and cf. diminution 2 b.) Hence † tapiˈnotically adv., by way of tapinosis.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.) 195 If ye abase your thing or matter by ignorance or errour in the choise of your word, then is it by vicious maner of speach called Tapinosis. c1600Timon ii. iv. (1842) 35 Pseud...They did obscure the sunne beames with wette clothis. Demeas. A tapinosis or diminution. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 292 Words diminishing the worth of a thing, tapinotically. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 57 In Meiosis, the speaker ought to take care that he fall not into that fault of speech, called Tapinosis, humility, that is when the dignity or majesty of a high matter is much defaced by the basenesse of a word; as to call the Ocean a stream, or the Thames a brook. |