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Need the perfect word for an essay

I know I seen it used before but I can't for the life of me remember what the word is. Here's the general outline of the definition. I may be trying to get a point across but instead of being direct about it I mention something along the lines of "I'm not even goin to mention George W. Bush's stupidity" or "I could talk about how stupid George Bush is but I won't", so delightfully subversivs and passive aggressive. Anyway I'me pretty sure there's a word out there for it, anyone have a clue. Thanks in advance, wasted my time with google when all I had to do was come to Usenet.
  

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[nq:1]I know I seen it used before but I can't for the life of me remember what the word is. a clue. htm paralipsis par-a-lip'-sis from Gk.

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  • [nq:1]I know I seen it used before but I can't for the life of me remember what the word is.
  • a clue.
  • htm paralipsis par-a-lip'-sis from Gk.
  • para, "side" and leipein, "to leave" ("to leave to one side") Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over.
  • A kind of irony.
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[nq:1]I know I seen it used before but I can't for the life of me remember what the word is. ... a clue. Thanks in advance, wasted my time with google when all I had to do was come to Usenet.[/nq]
"Paralipsis", or more specifically "cataphasis":
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/P/
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[nq:1]I know I seen it used before but I can't for the life of me remember what the word is. ... stupidity" or "I could talk about how stupid George Bush is but I won't", so delightfully subversivs and passive aggressive.[/nq]
paralipsis
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[nq:1]"Paralipsis", or more specifically "cataphasis": http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/P/paralipsis.htm paralipsis par-a-lip'-sis from Gk. para, "side" and leipein, "to leave" ("to leave to one ... Gk. "an affirmation" A kind of paralipsis in which one explicitly affirms the negative
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[nq:2]"Paralipsis", or more specifically "cataphasis": http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/P/paralipsis.htm paralipsis par-a-lip'-sis from Gk. ... explicitly affirms the negative qualities that one then passes over.[/nq]
[nq:1]That'a great. I bookmarked an example this morning in Tr
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[nq:2]That'a great. I bookmarked an example this morning in Trollope's ... struggles to which it is often necessary to give way."[/nq]
[nq:1]That's a good example of "proslepsis": http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/P/proslepsis.htm When paralipsis (stating and drawing attention to s
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[nq:1]paralipsis[/nq]
Or paraleipsis or paralepsis, or apophasis, or preterition or praeterition. See , for starters.
Mark Brader "There are three rules for writing the novel. Toronto Unfortunately no one knows what they are." (Email Removed) Maugham
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Mark Brader filted:
[nq:2]paralipsis[/nq]
[nq:1]Or paraleipsis or paralepsis, or apophasis, or preterition or praeterition. See , for starters.[/nq]
Never done better than in this Python excerpt:
http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode32.htm#6
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