Sekirov Dictionary

apotreptic

adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

adjective1

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Designed to dissuade.
- He draws out the purificatory implications of Apollo's apotreptic intervention when an uneasy feeling rises from the mantic spirit within him to meet the voice of the god. — 2006

noun1

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Rhetoric designed to dissuade.
- The sweeping mock-Catonian attack of Juv. 6, an apotreptic against marriage that quickly turns into a categorical disparagement of women. — 2001

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