mempsisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mempsis (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech expressing complaint or seeking help or redress for a wrong or grievance.
   • 2008, Daily Trope: "Mempsis (memp'-sis): Expressing complaint and seeking help. Something is very wrong and it needs a lot of fixing."
   • 1675, Thomas Cock, Miscelanea medica: "A mannerly condescension as this would have better become mempsis than an unmanly disdain."

使用する際の注意点

In classical rhetoric, mempsis is grouped with other forms of abusive or blame discourse (psogos, loidoria) as a stylistic device for complaint and invective. It may function as a serious rhetorical appeal or as a mock-complaint for humorous effect.

同意語

• complaint
• reproach
• invective

参考

• psogos
• loidoria
• bdelygmia