rhetoricizationn.
/rᵻˌtɒrᵻsʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /rəˌtɔrəsəˈzeɪʃən/, /rəˌtɔrəˌsaɪˈzeɪʃən/ The characterization, presentation, or amendment of something in accordance with the principles of rhetoric; an instance of this.
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1932 C. S. Lewis in Ess. & Stud. 17 62 A detailed study of the Book of Troilus would reveal this ‘rhetoricization’, if I may coin an ugly word, as the common quality of many of Chaucer's additions.
1958 P. M. Fraser tr. E. Löfstedt Rom. Literary Portraits vi. 105 From this point of view one might describe Sallust's style as a rhetoricization of Thucydides' ideal of style.
1996 Music & Lett. 77 11 These should be seen as part of a wider humanist enterprise which also supported the ‘rhetoricization’ of other arts, notably that of logic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1932- inaccuratenesses
- inacquaintance
- inacquiescency
- inacquiescent
- inact
- inaction
- inactionist
- inactions
- inactivate
- inactivated
- inactivates
- inactivating
- inactivation
- inactivations
- inactivator
- inactive
- inactively
- inactiveness
- inactivenesses
- inactivities
- inactivity
- inactose
- inactuate
- inactuation
- inadaptability