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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
paralipsis
    n 1: suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of
         significance is omitted [syn: paralepsis, paraleipsis,
         paralipsis, preterition]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Paralipsis \Par`a*lip"sis\, n. [NL.]
   See Paraleipsis.
   [1913 Webster] Parallactic
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Paraleipsis \Par`a*leip"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to leave
   on one side, to omit; para` beside + ? to leave.] (Rhet.)
   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." [Written also
   paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]
   [1913 Webster]
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