Tropology

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The use of tropes in speech or writing.
  • n. A mode of biblical interpretation insisting on the morally edifying sense of tropes in the Scriptures.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The use of a trope.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rhetorical or figurative mode of speech; the use of tropes or metaphors.
  • n. A treatise on tropes or figures.
  • n. Specifically, that use of a Scripture text which gives it a moral significance apart from, or rather implied or involved in, its direct and temporary meaning.
  • Word Usage
    "In the poem's historical moment, however, his is an address, an appeal, that can count on the natural cycle of the seasons, can readily steep its tropology of restoration in the certain circuit of their transitions."