"Tropist" is a word in ENGLISH
One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the
literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere
tropes and figures of speech.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more …
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