Paenismus (pai-nis’-mus): Expressing joy for blessings obtained or an evil avoided.
Oh Botox! You maketh my brow to rise upward. You restoreth my visage. Yea, tho I walk in the shadow of the valley of wrinkles I feel pretty good.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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