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tropology

[ troh-pol-uh-jee ]
/ troʊˈpɒl ə dʒi /
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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.

RELATED WORDS

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

Nearby words

tropicbird, tropine, tropism, tropo-, tropocollagen, tropology, tropomyosin, troponin, troponin i, tropopause, tropophilous

Origin of tropology

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

Related forms

trop·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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British Dictionary definitions for tropology

tropology

/ (trɒˈpɒlədʒɪ) /

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 Forms

tropologic or tropological, adjective

Word Origin for tropology

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