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paraleipsis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun paraleipsis has 1 sense
- paraleipsis(n = noun.communication) paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition - suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted; Array is a kind of rhetorical device
CIDE DICTIONARY
paraleipsis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to leave on one side, to omit; para` beside + to leave.].
A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, “I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice.” [1913 Webster]
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