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English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin concessiō.
Noun
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- He may be a scoundrel, but he's our scoundrel.
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concessio (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
- Synonym: concession
2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
Latin
Etymology
From concēdō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
concessiō f (genitive concessiōnis); third declension
- permission
- Synonyms: permissiō, concessus, venia
- grant, concession
- Synonym: concessus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.