elenchus
Example Sentences
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The elenchus comes soon or late, but it always comes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 by Various
Justiti� mensura, atque ambitionis elenchus, Regum arx, pax populo, si doceatur, erit.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
It is the leaven working in the Sophists with their subtle rhetoric, in Socrates with his negating elenchus, in Plato with his confounding dialectic.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
