preterition
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 Pre·ter·i·tion n.
 1. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
 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.

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 preterition
      n : suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of
          significance is omitted [syn: paralepsis, paraleipsis,
           paralipsis]