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suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
By Princeton University
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suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.
By Oddity Software
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n. [Latin] Act of going past; state of being past;-a rhetorical figure by which, in pretending to pass over any thing, a summary mention of it is made ;-in theology, the divine act of passing by or not electing to salvation those who finally perish.