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单词 ecbasis
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ecbasisn.

Etymology: < Greek ἔκβασις, < stem of ἐκβαίνειν to go out, digress.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈecbasis.
See quot. (Craig's explanation, copied in later dictionaries, appears to be merely a guess. In sense ‘digression’ the word appears in late Latin.)
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Ecbasis, a going out, an Event; also a Rhetorical Figure call'd Digression.
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Ecbasis, in Rhetoric, a figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events or consequences.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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