epitrope

From Latin epitrope, from Ancient Greek ἐπιτροπή (epitropḗ, “reference, arbitration”), from ἐπιτρέπω (epitrépō).

epitrope (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.

• epitropy

• “epitrope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Comprehensive Dictionary of the Word, Vol. II Part 1, Thomas Wright [1]

• Rippetoe