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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See paralipsis.

Wiktionary

  1. n. rhetoric, linguistics A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it, as in: "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice".

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rhet.) 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.”

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek παράλειψις (paraleipsis, "omission"), from παραλείπω (paraleipō, "I pass over"), from παρά (para, "by, near") + λείπω (leipō, "I leave"). (Wiktionary)

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