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| a·poph·a·sis [ ə póffəssəss ] |
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rhetorical device: the rhetorical device of alluding to something by denying that it will be mentioned, as in "I will not bring up the question of age now that you are forty"
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| [Mid-17th century. < late Latin< Greek apophanai "deny" < phanai "say" (see -phasia)] |
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