Noah Webster
Paralepsis
PARALEP'SIS
PAR'ALEPSY, noun [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]
In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he really mentions.
PARALEP'SIS
PAR'ALEPSY, noun [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]
In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he really mentions.