Usually means: Mentioning by claiming to omit.
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  11. paralipsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  16. paralipsis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (paralipsis)

▸ noun:  (rhetoric, linguistics) A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it.

Similar:
paraleipsis, paralepsis, preterition, apophasis, parathesis, anapodoton, periphrasis, parembole, proslepsis, epanalepsis, more...

Opposite:
apophasis, assertion, declaration, affirmation, statement

Types:
apophasis, more...

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Similar:
paraleipsis, paralepsis, preterition, apophasis, parathesis, anapodoton, periphrasis, parembole, proslepsis, epanalepsis, more...

Opposite:
apophasis, assertion, declaration, affirmation, statement

Types:
apophasis, more...



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