D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Epitrope

· E·pit·ro·pe · IPA
01 n. A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., “He that is unjust…
  1. 1.
    A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.”(Rhet.)