paraleipsis Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
preterition; paralepsis; paralipsis.

NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to leave on one side, to omit; 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.