Canadian French Meaning of paraleipsis
prêtérition
Other Canadian French words related to prêtérition
No Synonyms and anytonyms found
Nearest Words of paraleipsis
- paralepsis => Paralipse
- paralgesia => __Paralgésie__
- paralian => paralique
- paralichthys => Plie
- paralichthys dentatus => Flet
- paralichthys lethostigmus => Paralichthys lethostigma
- paralinguistic communication => Communication paralinguistique
- paralipomenon => Paralipomènes
- paralipsis => Paralipsis
- paralithodes => Paralithodes
Definitions and Meaning of paraleipsis in English
paraleipsis (n)
suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
paraleipsis (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.
FAQs About the word paraleipsis
prêtérition
suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omittedA pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends
No synonyms found.
No antonyms found.
paralegal => Parajuriste, paraldehyde => Paraldéhyde, paralbumin => Paralbumine, paralanguage => paralngage, paralactic => parallactique,
