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tropist

noun

Etymology

From trope + -ist. Compare French tropiste.

  1. derived from τρόπος
  2. derived from tropus
  3. suffixed as tropist — “trope + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who uses or deals in tropes.

  2. One who avoids the literal meaning of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere…

    One who avoids the literal meaning of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tropist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA