cataphasis  cataphasis
 kat-af'-a-sis Gk. "an affirmation"
affirmation

A kind of paralipsis in which one explicitly affirms the negative qualities that one then passes over.
 
Examples
  I will say nothing here of his fraudulent practices.
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  Sources: Bullinger 487


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