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Definition of Paralipsis
1. Noun. Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted.
Definition of Paralipsis
1. n. See Paraleipsis.
Definition of Paralipsis
1. Noun. (rhetoric linguistics) (alternative spelling of paraleipsis) ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralipsis
Literary usage of Paralipsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of by Frank Byron Jevons (1894)
"... drawing out and prolonging the effect of an enumera tion, renders it all the
more impressive ; while paralipsis, ie the omission of what might be taken ..."
2. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... paralipsis, or Omission, the pretended suppression of what one is all the time
mentioning, as in, " I say nothing of the notorious profligacy of his ..."
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