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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Stoic philos., a premise, the minor premise of a modus ponens or tollens.
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric The pretence of passing over a subject while at the same time describing it fully.
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Rhetorical Devices
trope, wellerism, antimetabole, syncope, open-list, accismus, abating, abbaser, abecedarian, abcisio, ablatio, abominatio and 425 more...
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Self-Descriptive
in the dark / it is easy to pretend / that the truth is what it ought to be
peripeteia, recidivist, pareidolia, apophenia, perendinate, apophasis, proslepsis, meretricious, ratiocinative, solastalgia, dysania, resistentialism
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