aposiopesis

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By the same token--but here the figure of aposiopesis is advantageous to me--old Madam Burridge, of my lodgings, has sent me three large forks and one small, which I left behind.

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  1. noun A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.

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  1. Late Latin aposiōpēsis, from Greek, from aposiōpān, to become silent : apo-, intensive pref.; see apo- + siōpān, to be silent (from siōpē, silence).

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  1. Latin, from Greek ἀποσιώπησ, σ1ις, from ἀποσιωπᾶν, become silent, from ἀπό, off, from, + σιωπᾶν, be silent.
 

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