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Definition of Paraleipsis
1. Noun. Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted.
Definition of Paraleipsis
1. n. 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."
Definition of Paraleipsis
1. Noun. (rhetoric linguistics) A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it, as in: "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice". ¹
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