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Meaning of "tropology" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TROPOLOGY

Via Late Latin from Greek tropalogia.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TROPOLOGY

tropology  [trɒˈpɒlədʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TROPOLOGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tropology is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TROPOLOGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tropological reading

Tropological reading is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of Biblical exegesis.

Definition of tropology in the English dictionary

The first definition of tropology in the dictionary is the use of figurative language in speech or writing. Other definition of tropology is the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures. Tropology is also a treatise on tropes or figures of speech.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TROPOLOGY


anthropology
ˌænθrəˈpɒlədʒɪ
apology
əˈpɒlədʒɪ
astrology
əˈstrɒlədʒɪ
biology
baɪˈɒlədʒɪ
biotechnology
ˌbaɪəʊtɛkˈnɒlədʒɪ
bumpology
bəmˈpɒlədʒɪ
carpology
kɑːˈpɒlədʒɪ
ecology
ɪˈkɒlədʒɪ
escapology
ˌeskəˈpɒlədʒɪ
hippology
hɪˈpɒlədʒɪ
methodology
ˌmɛθəˈdɒlədʒɪ
palaeoanthropology
ˌpælɪəʊˌænθrəˈpɒlədʒɪ
pathology
pəˈθɒlədʒɪ
physiology
ˌfɪzɪˈɒlədʒɪ
psychology
saɪˈkɒlədʒɪ
sociology
ˌsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒɪ
technology
tɛkˈnɒlədʒɪ
terminology
ˌtɜːmɪˈnɒlədʒɪ
topology
təˈpɒlədʒɪ
typology
taɪˈpɒlədʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TROPOLOGY

tropine
tropism
tropismatic
tropist
tropistic
tropocollagen
tropologic
tropological
tropologically
tropologies
tropomyosin
troponin
tropopause
tropophilous
tropophyte
tropophytic
troposcatter
troposphere
tropospheric
tropotaxis

WORDS THAT END LIKE TROPOLOGY

anthology
archaeology
cardiology
dermatology
epidemiology
gastroenterology
genealogy
histology
homology
immunology
information technology
microbiology
morphology
mythology
neurology
oncology
otolaryngology
pharmacology
phonology
radiology
theology

Synonyms and antonyms of tropology in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tropology» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TROPOLOGY

Find out the translation of tropology to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tropology from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tropology» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tropology
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tropología
570 millions of speakers

English

tropology
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tropology
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tropology
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тропология
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tropologia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tropology
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tropologie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tropologi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tropologie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tropology
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tropology
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tropika
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tỷ dụ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சத்துணவு பற்றிய இயலாய்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्रोपोलॉजी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mecaz kullanma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tropologia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tropology
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тропологов
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tropology
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tropology
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tropologie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tropology
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tropology
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tropology

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TROPOLOGY»

The term «tropology» is used very little and occupies the 184.005 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TROPOLOGY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tropology» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tropology» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tropology

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPOLOGY»

Discover the use of tropology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tropology and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor
Ankersmit's fluent grasp of European thought and his ability to incorporate concepts from literary theory, art history, the philosophy of science, and political thought into his analyses assure that this collection will interest readers ...
F. R. Ankersmit, 1994
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Sacred Tropology; or, a Brief view of the figures; and ...
John BROWN (Minister of the Gospel at Haddington.) ners; and his awful display thereof, in his righteous judgments a. His sadness and grief import his justdis' pleasure and righteous withdrawment of favour b Hid grief for the misery of his ...
John BROWN (Minister of the Gospel at Haddington.), 1802
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Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture
Mystical. Tropology. 1. A. Twofold. Tropology. In passing from history to allegory we passed, as it were, from the letter to the spirit, from the sensible fact to the deep reality, or from the miracle to the mystery. The passage from allegory to ...
Henri de Lubac, 2000
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Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians
And tropology itself, wherever it starts, tends to devolve toward irony. Hans Kellner has sympathetically but accurately described White's rhetorical tropology as "safe," his readings as "secure in their extraction of meaning"; he characterizes this ...
Mary Ellis Gibson, 1995
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Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth ...
But she is not right to claim this is because "rhetoric" must necessarily be "in the Nietzschean sense that all language is founded in tropology."37 Since when has tropology been in conflict with theology? Tropology and rhetoric thrive in the ...
Greg Clingham, 1998
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Re-Figuring Hayden White
A similar story can be told for White's tropology. Tropology also is something that “the mind brings” to (past) reality and that is not part of the past itself. But whereas Kant's contemporaries were surprisingly quick to grasp the revolutionary and ...
Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domanska, Hans Kellner, 2009
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The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to ...
Now, there are three kinds of spiritual knowledge — tropology, allegory, and anagogy — about which it is said in Proverbs: 'But you describe those things for yourself in threefold fashion according to the largeness of your heart.' "And so history ...
Richard Lischer, 2002
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Parables: Bernard of Clairvaux's Mapping of Spiritual Topography
In Cassian's rendering of Gal 4's exposition of Jerusalem the course is: history, allegory, anagogy, and tropology. In his interpretation of the classes of apostolic speech of 1Cor, however, he traverses allegory, tropology, anagogy, ...
Mette Birkedal Bruun, 2007
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Medieval Exegesis: The four senses of scripture
S. 26: ''three reeds . . . which is to say, the reeds of history, tropology, and allegory , a threefold understanding'' (PL 211: 154 C); S. 39: ''the historical sense, which equips us for truth; the moral sense, which shapes our will; the allegorical sense  ...
Henri de Lubac, 1998
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Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects
Even as an ad hoc assemblage, however, tropology claims the not insignificant power to codify and thus literalize most figures of speech. The very existence of useful categories like synechdoche, metalepsis, and the rest testifies that most ...
Gary Shapiro, Alan Sica, 1988

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROPOLOGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tropology is used in the context of the following news items.
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Playwriting doesn't get better or worse – but it does evolve
It's no mistake then that the study of text is Tropology. But all texts must end. They must be cut, tied off. Cut – in form and symbolism – appropriates an ancient ... «The Conversation AU, Apr 15»
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NIU remembers James Mellard
... Composition;” “Four Modes: A Rhetoric of Modern Fiction;” “Quaternion: Poems, Stories, and Plays; and “Doing Tropology: Analysis of Narrative Discourse.”. «NIU Today, Jul 14»
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St. Paul Would Have Failed My Hermeneutics Course
... and St. Thomas are adamant that the literal determines the three spiritual senses of allegory (or typology), tropology (morals), and anagogy (eternal destiny). «First Things, Jul 11»

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