| Definition of 'paraleipsis' |
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1. (noun) paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition
suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
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1. (noun) paraleipsis
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."
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