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Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
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paralepsis
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n. (context rhetoric linguistics English) (alternative spelling of paraleipsis English)
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n. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted [syn: paraleipsis , paralipsis , preterition ]
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Paraleipsis \Par`a*leip"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to leave on one side, to omit; para` beside + ? to leave.] (Rhet.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, ...