paralipsis in English
noun
1
the device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several million.
‘This is a rhetorician's little joke, Wittenberg comments, ‘based in the self-effacing irony of paralipsis ’.
noun
preteritionparalepsisparaleipsis
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