paraleipsis Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
    preterition; paralepsis; paralipsis.

WordNet

Par`a*leip"sis noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to leave on one side, to omit; beside + to leave.
Definitions
  1. (Rhet.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.

Webster 1913