Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, remission or abatement of the symptoms of a disease.
- noun In music: The progression from a high sound to one lower in pitch.
- noun The tuning of strings to a lower pitch: opposed to epitasis.
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- noun medicine
Remission of disease symptoms. - noun rhetoric Addition of a sentence, clause or phrase that diminishes what preceded.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἄνεσις (anesis, "loosening, abatement, remission")
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[38] But anesis and aphesis in I.Esd. iv. 62 looks like a word-play in what may not be original Greek; though a Semitic original of that section of I.Esd. (iii. 1 to v. 6) is by no means proved.
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“after a short time there was an abatement of evils,” being of opinion that the {anesis kakon} lasted about eight years.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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