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PRETERITION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preterition mean?
• PRETERITION (noun)
The noun PRETERITION has 1 sense:
1. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Familiarity information: PRETERITION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
paraleipsis; paralepsis; paralipsis; preterition
Hypernyms ("preterition" is a kind of...):
rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
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