Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See paralipsis.
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric, linguistics alternative spelling of paraleipsis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See paraleipsis.
WordNet 3.0
- n. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Examples
“The DI’s position weakened further when they tried over and over again to claim that they weren’t calling Jones a plagiarist—a clumsy attempt at a paralepsis, indeed.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘paralepsis’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Rhetoric: The Harlot of the Arts
Words to do with rhetoric--study of, history of, practice of, theory of
rhetoric, paralepsis, invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery, copia, consubstantiation, trope, colon, tricolon and 56 more...
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JLaughWork's Words
sesquipedalian, perspicacity, fervid, onomatopoeia, eschatology, prognostication, pedagogue, expiation, integrity, metamorphosis, supercilious, xenophilia and 229 more...
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hard words
crust, crustacean, crustaceous, crouton, crustose, encrust, crystal, crystalline, cryogenic, cryolysis, cryolite, cryophilic and 30 more...
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