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preterition
noun
(pret-er-i-tion)
suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Synonyms:
paraleipsis
,
paralepsis
,
paralipsis
,
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preterition
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paraleipsis
,
paralepsis
,
paralipsis
,
anacoluthon
,
pretermission
,
verbal noun
,
misken
,
legator
,
present participle
,
misregard
,
character witness
,
preterient
,
defail
,
main clause
,
essoiner
,
power of appointment
,
dative case
,
active voice
,
right of entry
,
derogator
,
cause of action
,
demonstrative pronoun
,
indefinite pronoun
,
abessive
,
referendary
,
indicative mood
,
relative pronoun
,
genitive case
,
hysteron proteron
,
enantiosis
,
apagoge
,
figure of speech
,
bename
,
deforcement
,
extradictionary
,
relative clause
,
legal document
,
rhetorical device
,
essoin
,
prejudication
,
weak point
,
verb phrase
,
grammatical case
,
bequeather
,
placit
,
independent clause
,
accusative case
,
schesis
,
compurgation
,
common noun
,
morology
,
adposition
,
obrogate
,
compurgator
,
homoioptoton
,
anacoluthia
,
nominative case
,
public law
,
vote down
,
nuncupate
,
epanodos
,
give notice
,
civilist
,
atychiphobia
,
misallege
,
in personam
,
recusation
,
possessive case
,
concrete noun
,
tread on
,
noun phrase
,
ghost word
,
epiplexis
,
circumduce
,
misattend
,
failance
,
epanalepsis
,
designatum
,
tailzie
,
forisfamiliate
,
burden of proof
,
petitio principii
,
objective case
,
epanadiplosis
,
prosopolepsy
,
misderive
,
direct object
,
go back on
,
similiter
,
presumer
,
avizandum
,
take exception
,
constructive fraud
,
line of succession
,
epanorthosis
,
misintend
,
devastavit
,
forjudge
,
anthimeria
,
do without
,
preterition
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