| tapinosis | |
| ta-pi-no'-sis | Gk. "a demeaning or humbling" |
| Also tapeinosis, antenantiosis | |
| humiliatio | |
| abbaser, a demeaning |
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Giving a name to something which diminishes it in importance. A kind of meiosis. | |
| This term is equivalent to meiosis. | ||
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| Said of the Mississippi River: "a stream" | ||
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| Sources: | Quintilian 8.3.48; Melanch. ER D4v ("meiosis" "tapinosis" "diminutio"); Susenbrotus (1540) 35; Sherry (1550) 34 ("tapinosis," "humiliatio"); Peacham (1577) G2r; Putt. (1589) 195 ("tapinosis," "the abbaser") | |
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