paraleipsis

NOUN
  1. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
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How To Use paraleipsis In A Sentence

  • That is an example of paraleipsis, the rhetorical technique of pointing something out by asserting you will not point it out, often preceded by the phrase “not to mention.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Don’t even mention," a locution known in rhetoric as a paraleipsis. Dawg's Blawg
  • Michael B says: jukeboxgrad, wise and venerable one, preeminent in modesty and modest formulations (I mock not, nor [now to the audience in feigned sotto voce], nor do I indulge any mean paraleipsis), The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)
  • Demoniacally arthropodan be a coastward that gets inaudible and we go from paraleipsis topping backstop to scandinavian butty. Rational Review
  • “I shall not introduce—the rhetoricians call this paraleipsis—the wonderful woman sitting, appropriately, on my left, Mrs. Robert Kennedy.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Demoniacally arthropodan be a coastward that gets inaudible and we go from paraleipsis topping backstop to scandinavian butty. Rational Review
  • jukeboxgrad, wise and venerable one, preeminent in modesty and modest formulations I mock not, nor now to the audience in feigned sotto voce, nor do I indulge any mean paraleipsis The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)
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