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plural topoi or toposes
A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula. quotations examples
The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 239
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