tropology

1. (rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).Examples: "But she is not right to claim this is because "rhetoric" must necessarily be "in the Nietzschean sense that all language is founded in tropology."³⁷ Since when has tropology been in conflict with theology? Tropology and rhetoric thrive in the works of both Calvin and Calvino, and tropology is the very lifeblood of The Pilgrim's Progress."countablerhetoricuncountable

2. (theology, philosophy) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.Examples: "Where the syntax of propositions is broken, we see a very general principle of tropology that grants a priori that things like texts are replacements of things like authors."; "He must distinguish the historical information from the allegory, divide the allegory from the tropology, and separate the tropology from the anagogy."; "A similar story can be told for White's tropology. Tropology also is something that “the mind brings” to (past) reality and that is not part of the past itself."countableuncountable