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litotes Definition


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litotes
noun
    1. rhetoric.
      Understatement used for effect, especially by negating the opposite, as in not a little angry meaning furious. Also called meiosis. Compare hyperbole.
Etymology: 17c: Greek, meaning ‘small'.



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