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Definition of Hypobole
1. n. A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.
Definition of Hypobole
1. Noun. (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favour of the opposing side, and then they are refuted one by one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypobole
1. anticipation of objections [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypobole
Literary usage of Hypobole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... Hypnotismus und Suggestion (Leipzig, 1893) ; Dessoir, Bibliographie (Berlin,
1891); Jastrow, Fact and Fable in Psychology (Boston, 1900). hypobole ..."
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