English dictionary
paraleipsis
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Source: WordNet 3.0
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A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice."
Source: webster1913