单词 | paralipsis |
释义 | paralipsis/ˌparəˈlɪpsɪs /noun [mass noun] Rhetoric The device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing of a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several millions.‘This is a rhetorician's little joke, Wittenberg comments, ‘based in the self-effacing irony of paralipsis’....
OriginLate 16th century: via late Latin from Greek paraleipsis 'passing over', from paraleipein 'omit', from para- 'aside' + leipein 'to leave'. Rhymes |
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