Apophasis

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.].

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apophasis
ăpŏphăsis, is, f., = ἀπόφασις (denial), rhet. fig., whereby one , as it were , answers himself , J...

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