"erotesis" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "erotesis"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin erotesis",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἐρώτησις"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐρώτησις (erṓtēsis)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin erotesis, from Ancient Greek ἐρώτησις (erṓtēsis), from ἐρωτάω (erōtáō, “I question”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eroteses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eroteses"
      },
      "expansion": "erotesis (plural eroteses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Figures of speech",
          "orig": "en:Figures of speech",
          "parents": [
            "Rhetoric",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rhetoric",
          "orig": "en:Rhetoric",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "erotetic"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 126:",
          "text": "he would ſometimes break off in a ſudden and ſpirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis […] and demand it categorically of his antagoniſt, Whether he would take upon him to ſay, he had ever remember'd,—whether he had ever read,–or even whether he had ever heard tell of a man, call'd Tristram, performing any thing great or worth recording?–No–, he would ſay,–Tristram!–The thing is impoſſible.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 31:",
          "text": "By Erotesis, what we know we ask,\nPrescribing, for effect, a needless task.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer."
      ],
      "id": "en-erotesis-en-noun-CULPame7",
      "links": [
        [
          "rhetoric",
          "rhetoric"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Alan Moore",
        "V for Vendetta"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛɹəˈtiːsɪs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "erotesis"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "erotetic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "erotesis"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin erotesis",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἐρώτησις"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐρώτησις (erṓtēsis)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin erotesis, from Ancient Greek ἐρώτησις (erṓtēsis), from ἐρωτάω (erōtáō, “I question”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eroteses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eroteses"
      },
      "expansion": "erotesis (plural eroteses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Late Latin",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from Late Latin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Figures of speech",
        "en:Rhetoric"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 126:",
          "text": "he would ſometimes break off in a ſudden and ſpirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis […] and demand it categorically of his antagoniſt, Whether he would take upon him to ſay, he had ever remember'd,—whether he had ever read,–or even whether he had ever heard tell of a man, call'd Tristram, performing any thing great or worth recording?–No–, he would ſay,–Tristram!–The thing is impoſſible.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 31:",
          "text": "By Erotesis, what we know we ask,\nPrescribing, for effect, a needless task.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rhetoric",
          "rhetoric"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Alan Moore",
        "V for Vendetta"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛɹəˈtiːsɪs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "erotesis"
}