Meaning of apophasis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
2. A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Apophasis, affecting to conceal; What it would seem to hide, will yet reveal.”

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