• Epitrope
• Paromologia

Etymology:

Examples and Alternative Definitions:

• "This, however, I say concerning all the Greeks: I grant them learning, the knowledge of many sciences; I do not deny that they have wit, fine genius, and eloquence: nay, if they lay claim to many other excellencies, I shall not contest their title: but this I must say, that nation never paid a proper regard to the religious sanctity of public evidence, and are total strangers to the obligation, authority, and importance of truth."
  (Cicero, "Oration for Flaccus")
• "Thiebault, cited by Le Hir, calls a purely hypothetical concession synchoresis. Ex: 'Supposing that we were to admit . . .' [the speaker then demonstrates the resultant improbabilities]. [Richard] Lanham, however, defines synchoresis as the permission to be personally judged which a speaker gives to a questioner, and cites Falstaff: 'And here I stand: judge my masters' (Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt 1, 2.4)."
  (Bernard Marie Dupriez, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z. Trans. by Albert W. Halsall. Univ. of Toronto Press, 1991)

• "Synchoresis [is] a figure of argumentation that features a speech made in a confident tone, the conclusion to which the audience is left to create: 'Since he swore and has witnesses to swear that he was in another place at the time of the crime, I leave it to you to determine his guilt or innocence.'"
  (Jack Elliott Myers and Don C. Wukasch, Dictionary of Poetic Terms. Univ. of North Texas Press, 2003)
• "[Synchoresis is] the rhetorical technique of appearing to agree with those who are against you or disagree with you. The opening of Mark Antony's speech over the body of Caesar is perhaps the most well known example of synchoresis as he elaborately pretends to agree with Brutus while subtly changing the crowd's attitude as he continues his speech. . . .
  

  Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears:
  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
  The evil that men do lives after them;
  The good is oft interred with their bones;
  So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
  Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
  If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
  And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
  Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
  (For Brutus is an honourable man;
  So are they all, all honourable men)
  Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
  (Mark Antony in Act III, scene two of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare)

  (Kate Emery Pogue, Shakespeare's Figures of Speech. iUniverse, 2009)
• "Synchoresis. This figure of rhetoric consists of a concession made by a debater or a critic, to forestall an objection, to give ground for a retort, or to strengthen the context by making it appear to be very mild in comparison with all that might be truly said. Thus Antony, speaking at the funeral of Caesar, says:

  I am no orator, as Brutus is.

  The implied argument is, If, with these most significant facts which I have recited, I had also the eloquence of Brutus, you would find the arraignment overwhelming."
  (Rossiter Johnson, The Alphabet of Rhetoric. D. Appleton & Co., 1903)
• "In his book The Prince, Machiavelli wrote about how to conquer and preserve authority. The impression of being fair and honest may, if the preservation of the authority requires it, be followed by tricks, lies and violence. Humans are presumed to have such a Machiavellian intelligence to bring out self-interest at the expense of others, mainly because we are part of the biological system."
  (Bengt Carlsson and Paul Davidsson, "A Biological View of Information Infosystems." Intelligent Agent Technology: Research and Development, ed. by Ning Zhong et al. World Scientific, 2001)