APOPHASIS

Meaning of APOPHASIS in English

n. raising a particular issue by saying that it will not be mentioned (e.g., "I will not bring up the fact that CEO Thomson has two children from an adulterous relationship")

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APOPHASIS — noun see: ban Date: 1657 the raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it (as in “we won't …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
APOPHASIS — (n.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a …
Английский словарь Webster
APOPHASIS — ( n. ) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
APOPHASIS — /euh pof"euh sis/ , n. Rhet. denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is at the same …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
APOPHASIS — noun Etymology: Late Latin, repudiation, from Greek, denial, negation, from apophanai to deny, from apo- + phanai to say — …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
APOPHASIS — noun a figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a …
Webster English vocab
APOPHASIS — (риторически) фигура умолчания
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
APOPHASIS — n ритор. фигура умолчания
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APOPHASIS — (n) фигура умолчания
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
APOPHASIS — n ритор. фигура умолчания
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APOPHASIS — n ритор. фигура умолчания
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APOPHASIS — (риторически) фигура умолчания
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
APOPHASIS — Pronunciation: ə - ' pä-f ə -s ə s Function: noun Etymology: Late Latin, repudiation, from Greek, denial, negation, from …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
RETICENTIA — n 1. reticence; 2. [Rhet.] apophasis
Interlingua English vocab
APOPHATIC — [ ˌapə'fatɪk ] ■ adjective Theology (of knowledge of God) obtained through negating concepts that might be applied to him. …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SPEECH — Synonyms and related words : ESP, address, after-dinner speech, alliteration, allocution, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, answer, answering, antiphrasis, …
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SIMILE — Synonyms and related words : accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, …
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METAPHOR — Synonyms and related words : accordance, agent, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, alternate, alternative, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogue, analogy, anaphora, …
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MALAPROPISM — Synonyms and related words : Irish bull, abuse of terms, acrostic, alliteration, allusion, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anagram, analogy, anaphora, …
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FIGURE OF SPEECH — Synonyms and related words : adornment, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, …
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