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aposiopesis

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun aposiopesis has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

aposiopesisn. [L., fr. Gr. , from to be quite silent.].
     A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, “I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here.”  [1913 Webster]
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