Figure Name | bdelygmia |
Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Peacham (1593) |
Earliest Source | None |
Synonyms | abominatio, fastidium |
Etymology | Gk. "nausea, disgust" |
Type | Trope |
Linguistic Domain |
Semantic |
Definition |
1. Expressing hatred and abhorrence of a person, word, or deed. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Bdelygmia, in latine Abominatio, and Fastidium, is a forme of speech which the speaker useth to signifie how much he hateth and abhorreth some person, word, deed, or thing, and it is used commonly in a short forme, and in few words. (Peacham) |
Example |
1. I do hate a proud man, as I do hate the engend'ring of toads. 2. Against a person thus: Out upon him wretch. Against an odious word thus: Peace for shame. Against an odious deed, thus: Fie upon it. Against an odious thing, thus: Away with it, I love not to heare of it, I abhorre it: Avoyd Sathan, Mat.4. (Peacham) 2. Sometime with mo words, thus: No more for shame, bury it in silence, whose eyes can looke upon it, and not loath it, or whose eares can heare it, and not abhore it? (Peacham) |
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Related Figures | apodioxis, figures of exclamation |
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Confidence | Unconfident |
Last Editor | Ashley Rose Kelly |
Confidence | Unconfident |
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Reviewed | No |