tropology

[troh-pol-uh-jee]

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noun, plural tro·pol·o·gies for 2.

the use of figurative language in speech or writing.

a treatise on figures of speech or tropes.

the use of a Scriptural text so as to give it a moral interpretation or significance apart from its direct meaning.

Origin of tropology

1510–20; < Late Latin tropologia < Greek tropología. See trope, -o-, -logy

Related formstrop·o·log·ic

[trop-uh-loj-ik, troh-puh-] /ˌtrɒp əˈlɒdʒ ɪk, ˌtroʊ pə-/, trop·o·log·i·cal, adjectivetrop·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Related Words for tropology

allegory, allusion, analogy, anticlimax, antithesis, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, metaphor

Examples from the Web for tropology

Historical Examples of tropology

Above and beyond all is that divine something to which divine Scripture leads, either in allegory or tropology.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)
Henry Osborn Taylor

British Dictionary definitions for tropology

tropology

noun plural -gies

rhetoric the use of figurative language in speech or writing

Christian theol the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures

a treatise on tropes or figures of speech

Derived Formstropologic or tropological, adjective

Word Origin for tropology

C16: via Late Latin from Greek tropalogia; see trope, -logy

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