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Definitions for Tropology
[1] the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
[2] a treatise on figures of speech or tropes.
[3] the use of a Scriptural text so as to give it a moral interpretation or significance apart from its direct meaning.
[4] rhetoric the use of figurative language in speech or writing
[5] Christian theol the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures
[6] a treatise on tropes or figures of speech
Words related to Tropology
allegory, allusion, analogy, anticlimax, antithesis, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, metaphor
Words nearby Tropology
tropicbird, tropine, tropism, tropo-, tropocollagen, tropology, tropomyosin, troponin, troponin i, tropopause, tropophilous
Origin of Tropology
1510–20; < Late Latin tropologia < Greek tropología. See trope, -o-, -logy
Other words from Tropology
trop·o·log·ic [trop-uh -loj -ik, troh-puh -] /ˌtrɒp əˈlɒdʒ ɪk, ˌtroʊ pə-/ , trop·o·log·i·cal , adjective
trop·o·log·i·cal·ly , adverb
Word origin for Tropology
C16: via Late Latin from Greek tropalogia ; see trope , -logy
Synonyms for Tropology
adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking