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  1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
    • 2003, w:Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 239)
      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.




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