In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PARALEIPSES
PARALIPSIS
paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition
(noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
paraleipses
plural of paraleipsis
Source: Wiktionary
PARALEIPSIS
Par`a*leip"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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