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syncrisis

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syn⋅cri⋅sis

  [sing-kruh-sis, sin-]
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–noun Rhetoric Obsolete.
the comparison of opposites.
Origin:
1650–60; < LL < Gk sýnkrisis combination, comparison, equiv. to syn- syn- + kri- (s. of krnein to separate) + -sis -sis
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