aetiologia

English
Examples (rhetoric)

He could become President, for he was born here.

Etymology

From Latin. Doublet of aetiology.

Noun

aetiologia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) Attributing a cause for a statement or claim made, often as a simple relative clause of explanation.

References
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