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Definitions of “litotes”
A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.
“The delicacy which prompts a later generation to reject that name is by no means necessarily a result of stricter habits, is far more often due to the flatness which comes of untiring repetition and to the greater piquancy of litotes.”
A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.
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