1. Noun
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."
2. Noun
suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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