meaning of preterition
1. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
2. A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just. " Called also paraleipsis.
3. The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.
4. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
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