Meaning of mycterism | Babel Free

Definitions

A subtle or scornful jibe.

rare, rhetoric

Examples

“But he recovers himself soon, if only by the dry fashion in which he observes that, if anybody does not know⟳ it, the Greeks call⟳ certain kinds of allegory sarcasm, asteism, antiphasis, and parœmia, to which it may be well to at mycterism, a kind of derision which is dissembled, but not altogether concealed―as very neatly by M. Fabius Quintillianus in the passage before us.”

“As he makes clear, he has quite a few such “nauseatingly gross figures of clay” in mind⟳, turning the irony or sarcasm of a specific instant into widespread mycterism—broad disdain pronounced with a sneer.”

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