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doc Definition of paraleipsis
    English to English
    noun
  • suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
  • source: WordNet 3.0
  • 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."
  • source: Webster 1913
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