Associations to the word «Apophasis»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

APOPHASIS, noun. (rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned

Dictionary definition

APOPHASIS, noun. Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne