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Definition of Apophasis
1. Noun. Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned.
Definition of Apophasis
1. n. A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]
Definition of Apophasis
1. Noun. (rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apophasis
1. [n -PHASES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apophasis
Literary usage of Apophasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... Apostrophe, Vision, apophasis, Irony, Antithesis, Climax—Figures of Rhetoric
necessitating Representative Language : Onomatopoeia, Metonymy, Synecdoche, ..."
2. Die Ketzergeschichte des Urchristenthums by Adolf Hilgenfeld (1884)
"Von höherer Ursprünglichkeit kann bei dem Simon der apophasis ebenso wenig die
Rede sein, ... apophasis ..."
3. The History of Israel by Heinrich Ewald, Russell Martineau, Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1886)
"be seen long after his death.1 In later times a book of his, with the title Great
apophasis, or Great Demonstration, was in existence, in which his whole ..."
4. Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on by George Payn Quackenbos (1874)
"... to express the barking of a dog; or, buzz, buzz, to indicate the noise made
by bees. §339. What is Irony? § 340. What other names has apophasis ? ..."
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