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litotes

litotes [LL < λιτότης] , (rhet.) litotes, understatement. ~es, duo negativa unum adfirmant GlC L 168; liptotes fit ubi minus dicitur et magis intelligitur Gerv. Melkley AV 85; liptote est: minus dicit et plus significat S. Langton Chron. 180; similiter si eclipsi utitur et cum racione erit liptote, si minus intellecto dicit Ps.-Gros. Gram. 74.

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