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noun
A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin epitrope, from Ancient Greek ἐπιτροπή (epitropḗ, “reference, arbitration”), from ἐπιτρέπω (epitrépō).
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