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noun
The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, lifestyle, philosophy, religion, sciences, theology
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noun
A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
From Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek τροπολογία (tropología), equivalent to trope + -ology.
