Comprobatio (com-pro-ba’-ti-o): Approving and commending a virtue, especially in the hearers.
You are all awake! I commend you, class, for listening to me blabber for the past hour. I had nothing interesting to say, and clearly don’t know what I’m talking about, but your amazing attempts to look interested in my lecture warmed my heart and made me decide not to kill myself in the parking lot after class.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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