noun
părăsĭōpēsis
Meaning
- a figure of rhetoric
părăsĭōpēsis, is, f., = παρασιώπησις,
I. a figure of rhetoric, where one says he will not speak of such and such a thing, but, in the very act of so doing, suggests it:
parasiopesis: hoc est, cum aliquid nos reticere dicimus et tamen tacitum intellegitur, Rutil. Lup. Fig. Sent. 2, 11.