parabases

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of parabasis.
  parabasis

  noun

  (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.

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parabases

I have no particular objection to it; but those who object to Thackeray's parabases ought to think this is a still more objectionable thing.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

His digressions are not parabases of the kind which some people object to in Fielding and still more in Thackeray—addresses to the reader on points more or less intimately connected with the subject itself.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

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