Uk English Meaning of paraleipsis

paralipsis

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Definitions and Meaning of paraleipsis in English

Wordnet

paraleipsis (n)

suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted

Webster

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.

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paralipsis

suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omittedA pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends

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paralegal => Paralegal, paraldehyde => Paraldehyde, paralbumin => Paralbumin, paralanguage => paralanguage, paralactic => parallactic,