meiosis

Definiciones

A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

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Ejemplos

“I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her⟳ suicide was a direct result of my having told her⟳ of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.”

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