dormitive virtue

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words. idiomatic,rhetoric
    — The inevitable next suggestion -— that aesthetic experience is distinguished not by pleasure at all but by a special aesthetic emotion can be dropped on the waste-pile of "dormitive virtue” explanations

词形变化

dormitive virtues plural

词源

A calque translation of Latin, virtus dormitiva, coined by Molière in The Imaginary Invalid. In the play, he lampoons a group of physicians providing an explanation in macaronic Latin of the sleep-inducing properties of opium as stemming from its "virtus dormitiva".
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