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| si'-stro-fee | from Gk. syn, "together" and strophe, "turning" |
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The listing of many qualities or descriptions of someone or something, without providing an explicit definition. | |
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of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals; and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? —Shakespeare, Hamlet2.2.303-310 |
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