Usually means: Rhetorical granting of opponent's point.
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  1. epitrope: Wordnik
  2. epitrope: Wiktionary
  3. Epitrope: Dictionary.com
  4. Epitrope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. epitrope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Epitrope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. epitrope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. epitrope: FreeDictionary.org
  9. epitrope: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. Epitrope: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (epitrope)

noun:  (rhetoric) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.

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