English Explanatory Dictionary

tricolon diminuens

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A "diminishing" tricolon, its parts decreasing in magnitude or intensity

Word forms

tricolon diminuens

Etymology

From tricolon (“a rhetorical device”) and Latin dīminuēns (“decreasing, diminishing”).

Antonyms

tricolon crescens
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