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What is the noun for trope?

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trope
  1. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
  2. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
  3. (geometry) Mathematical senses.
    1. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
    2. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
  4. (music) Musical senses.
    1. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
    2. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
    3. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
    4. (Roman Catholicism) A phrase or verse added to the Mass when sung by a choir.
  5. (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
    1. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
    2. (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The depiction of her as a temptress echoes the trope of woman as Eve, the seducer of men.”
tropology
  1. (rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).
  2. (theology) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
  3. A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The substitutability principle is none other than a generalization of the very notion of tropology.”
      “Above and beyond all is that divine something to which divine Scripture leads, either in allegory or tropology.”
      “As soon as exegesis of the Old Testament becomes an issue necessary to daily reading of Scripture, typology becomes of far greater importance than tropology.”
tropist
  1. One who deals in tropes.
  2. One who avoids the literal meaning of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
  3. Alternative form of troper
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troper
  1. One who tropes.
  2. One who uses tropes.
  3. Synonyms:
tropes
tropologies
tropists
  1. plural of tropist
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tropers
  1. plural of troper
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