Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Paraleipsis \Par`a*leip"sis\, n. [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}.]
Source : WordNet®
paraleipsis
n : suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of
significance is omitted [syn: {paralepsis}, {paralipsis},
{preterition}]
[also: {paraleipses} (pl)]