SECURITAS  保証法

RATIOCINATIO offering oneself as the witness or guarantor of the truth of what one is saying.

Offering oneself as guarantor or surety for a statement.

Hypernym
  • RATIOCINATIOSPEECH ACT of developing one's points of view through rational reflection and reasoned argument.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
EX: "I guarantee you that this is so".

REF: Lanham. Not in Lausberg. Probably of renaissance origin.

Greek/Latin: Ubiquitous

Ancient Chinese: It would be nice to see a good set of examples.

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