Rhetoric vs Deceit - What's the difference?
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The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
* {{quote-book, year=1998, author=Mike Dixon-Kennedy, title=Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page=125, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=2U7okUE3PIcC&pg=PA125
, passage=Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father. }}
(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
* {{quote-book, year=1611, title=King James Bible, chapter=Psalms 10:7
, passage=His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.}}
(legal) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
As nouns the difference between rhetoric and deceit
is that rhetoric is the art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade while deceit is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.As an adjective rhetoric
is .rhetoric
English
(wikipedia rhetoric)Alternative forms
* rhetorick (obsolete)Adjective
Noun
- It’s only so much rhetoric .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "rhetoric": political, legal, visual, classical, ancient, violent, empty, inflammatory, hateful, heated, fiery, vitriolic, angry, overheated, extreme.Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* rhetorical * rhetoricianSee also
* preterition *Anagrams
*deceit
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .