apocopic

apocopic

(ˌæpəˈkɒpɪk)
adj
of or relating to apocope
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The apocopic disfogar (43) resounds from Petrarch, "E 'ntanto lagrimando sfogo / di dolorosa nebbia il cor condenso" (And then I weeping unburden my heart of the sorrowful cloud gathered in it) (canzone 129.57-58), and it suggests the speaker's hope that the work of composing poetry might purge him of dangerous illusions.