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Meaning of conciliatio

conciliatio: It is a rhetorical figure where a word mentioned above is used (most of the time by the interlocutor) and the meaning is changed for the purposes of mockery, irony or by simple intellectual play. From Latin conciliatio, onis ("association").; It is a term used in rhetoric. It refers to a type of dialectical figure, within literary figures. It is a manipulative resource of language, through which a term previously used by the interlocutor in a speech is taken up and a meaning is given totally to the one it had and with which it was used.