Meaning of apophasis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. denial, negation, repudiation
   declension-3, feminine
2. accusative plural of apophasis
   accusative, form-of, plural
3. apophasis; ironically alluding to a subject matter by denying that the subject will be mentioned, embedded within a statement or rhetorical question whereby one, as it were, answers himself
   Late-Latin, declension-3, feminine, rhetoric
4. apprehending knowledge of what is true about an unknowable, such as the essence of a divine being like God, by a negative process of denying propositions that are knowably untrue
   Ecclesiastical, Latin, declension-3, feminine

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