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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Par·a·leip·sis n.  Rhet. 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.]
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Par·a·lep·sis n.  See Paraleipsis.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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