| paradigma | |
| pa-ra-dig'-ma | Gk. "a showing side by side" |
| example, resemblance by example |
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An argument from example whose purpose is to exhort or dissuade. | |
| Bede refers to this figure, along with parabola and icon, as kinds of homoeosis. | ||
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| Sources: | Bede 618; Peacham (1577) U2v; Putt. (1589) 252 ("paradigma," "resemblance by example"); Day 1599 100 | |
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