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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Preterition  \Pre`ter*i"tion\  (?;  277),  n.  [L.  praeteritio:  cf 
  F.  pr['e]t['e]rition.] 
  1.  The  act  of  passing,  or  going  past;  the  state  of  being 
  past.  --Bp.  Hall. 
 
  2.  (Rhet.)  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.  (Law)  The  omission  by  a  testator  of  some  one  of  his  heirs 
  who  is  entitled  to  a  portion.  --Bouvier. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  preterition 
  n  :  suggesting  by  deliberately  concise  treatment  that  much  of 
  significance  is  omitted  [syn:  {paralepsis},  {paraleipsis}, 
  {paralipsis}] 




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