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Epiphonema

Epiphonema \Ep`i*pho*ne"ma\, n. [L., fr. Gr. 'epifw`nhma, fr. 'epifwnei^n to mention; 'epi` + fwnei^n to speak.] (Rhet.) An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.

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epiphonema

n. (context rhetoric English) An exclamation or reflection used to summarise or round off an argument or discourse.

Usage examples of "epiphonema".

Gillenormand, over a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, spoke lightly of the Convention and discharged a royalist epiphonema upon Danton, Saint Just, and Robespierre.

Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc.