Paralipsis
Definition:
Paralipsis is a kind of irony in which the speaker proposes not to speak of a matter, but still somehow reveals it.
Examples:
I know who did it, but I won’t mention Bill’s name.
Source:
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1637
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.