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Noun: preterition  `pre-tu'ri-shun
  1. Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
    - paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis

Derived forms: preteritions

Type of: rhetorical device

Encyclopedia: Preterition

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