Look up: apophasis


  1. apophasis
    [n] - mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
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  2. Apophasis
    A·poph'a·sis (ȧ*pŏf'ȧ*sĭs) noun [ Greek 'apo`fasis denial, from 'apofa`nai to speak out, to deny.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point,...
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  3. apophasis
    noun mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
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  4. Apophasis
    • (n.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony`s oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.]
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  5. apophasis
    apophasis 1. Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned. 2. The rhetorical device of alluding to something by denying that it will be mentioned, as in 'I won't bring up the question of age now that you are seventy.' 3. The denial of someone's intention to talk about a subject that is ...
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  6. Apophasis
    Apophasis (Late Latin, from Greek ἀπόφασις from ἀποφάναι—apophanai, "to say no") refers, in general, to "mention by not mentioning". Apophasis covers a wide variety of figures of speech. ==Apophasis== Apophasis was originally and more broadly a method of logical reasoning or arg...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis

  7. apophasis
    1) Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned 2) Rhetorical device
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/apophasis/1

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