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1 Citation Mit litotes bezeichnet man den Ersatz einer Übertreibung durch die Negation des Gegenteils. >Nicht klein< bedeutet also >ziemlich groß, technorati.com
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1 Citation Abbaser: Puttenham?s English term for tapinosis. Also equivalent to meiosis: reference to something with a name disproportionately lesser than its nature (a kind of litotes: deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite). New York?a little town on a little island in a river. Post your own abbaser on the ?Comments? page! Definitions courtesy of ?Silva Rhetoricae? (rhetoric.byu.edu). Bracketed text added by Gorgias., technorati.com
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