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paromologia

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παρομολογία (paromología, “partial admission”), from παρα- (para-) + ὁμολογία (homología).

  1. learned borrowing from παρομολογία

Definitions

  1. A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.

    • Refusing to admit the grain of truth in their opponents' arguments is how they squandered their own political power; a smart amount of paromologia might have preserved it.

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