concessio
nounUK /kənˈsɛsi.əʊ/ · US /kənˈsɛsi.oʊ/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin concessiō. Doublet of concession.
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Rhetoric The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
- 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.2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC: