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deesis
English
Alternative forms
- deësis
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (dé?sis, “entreaty, petition, want”)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA(key): /d??i?s?s/
Noun
deesis
- (rhetoric) A call to witness.
- (rhetoric) A vehement expression of desire, as in "think of the children!" or requests preceded by "for God's sake".
Synonyms
- (calling to witness): adjuration
References
- Silva Rhetoricae
Anagrams
- deises, seised
deesis From the web:
deess
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /de??(j)?s/
Noun
deess (plural deesses)
- (obsolete) A goddess.
- 1685, Herbert Croft (bishop)
- He does so much magnifie Nature and her actings in all this material world, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joint deess with God in the affairs thereof.
- 1685, Herbert Croft (bishop)
Anagrams
- Seeds, essed, sedes, seeds
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