| 单词 |
paradiastole |
| 释义 |
‖ paradiastole Rhet. Obs.|ˌpærədaɪˈæstəliː|
[L., a. Gr. παραδιαστολή ‘putting together of dissimilar things’, f. παρα- side by side + διαστολή separation, distinction.]
A figure in which a favourable turn is given to something unfavourable by the use of an expression that conveys only part of the truth. b. (See quot. 1657.)
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 84 Paradiastole, when with a milde interpretation or speech wee colour others or our owne faults, as when we call a subtile person, wise; a bold fellow, couragious; a prodigall man, liberall. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.) 195 The figure Paradiastole, which..nothing improperly we call the Curry-fauell. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 113 Paradiastole is a dilating or enlarging of a matter by interpretation. A figure when we grant one thing that we may deny another. Ibid. 115 This figure paradiastole is by some learned Rhetoricians called a faulty tearm of speech, opposing the truth by false tearms and wrong names. 1706Phillips, Paradiastole,..a Figure which disjoyns things that seem to have one Import, and shews how much they differ.
Hence † paradiˈastolary a.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 292 Figurative expressions,..paradoxical, paramologetick, paradiastolary. |
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