CONCESSION, in Rhetoric, a figure whereby something is freely allowed, that yet might bear dispute, to obtain something that one would have granted to him, and which he thinks cannot fairly be denied, as in the following concession of Dido, in Virgil:
"The nuptials he disclaims, I urge no more;
"Let him pursue the promis'd Latian shore.
"A short delay is all I ask him now;
"A pause of grief, an interval from wo."