Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A speech, or figure of speech, contrived to move the passions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.
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- noun music The arousing of
emotion in someone who hearsmusic ; apassage designed to arouse emotions - noun rhetoric Speech that moves hearers emotionally, especially as the speaker attempts to elicit an emotional response by way of demonstrating his/her own feelings.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek παθοποιία (pathopoiia); πάθος (pathos, "passion") + ποιέω (poieō, "make").
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Rhetoric and (in later use) Music. The arousing of emotion in a hearer; a passage designed to arouse emotion or affect the emotions.
August 6, 2008