Apophasis; or, Insinuation
Apophasis; or, Insinuation
Addition of Insinuation (implied) by way of Reasoning
A-poph-a-sis (), denial, negation, from (apophanai), to speak off, and this from (apo), off, and (phanai), to speak or say.
The figure is used when, professing to suppress certain matters or ideas, the speaker proceeds to add the insinuation, negatively: e.g., I will not mention the matter, but, etc.; or, I will not mention another argument, which, however, if I should, you could not refute.
Philem. 19.-I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it (albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides).
When the matter or argument is actually added, the figure is then called