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Definition of Paralepsis
1. Noun. Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted.
Definition of Paralepsis
1. n. See Paraleipsis.
Definition of Paralepsis
1. Noun. (rhetoric linguistics) (alternative spelling of paraleipsis) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralepsis
Literary usage of Paralepsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are by John Walker (1822)
"paralepsis, or Omission, is a figure by which the orator pretends to conceal or
pass by what he really means to declare and strongly to enforce. ..."
2. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and by John Walker (1823)
"paralepsis, or Omission, is a figure by which the orator pretends to conceal or
pass by what he really means to declare and strongly to enforce. ..."
3. English Grammar: Style, Rhetoric, and Poetry ; to which are Added by Richard Hiley (1846)
"paralepsis or omission is a figure by which we pretend to omit what we are really
desirous of enforcing; as, " Your idleness, not to mention your ..."
4. The Educational Magazine (1835)
"Climax, metonymy, hyperbole, prosopopeia, antithesis, irony, paralepsis. ...
What is a paralepsis ? A figure by which the speaker pretends to conceal what ..."
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