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noun
A "diminishing" tricolon, its parts decreasing in magnitude or intensity
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: no-plural, rhetoric
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: tricolon crescens
History
From tricolon (“a rhetorical device”) and Latin dīminuēns (“decreasing, diminishing”).
