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noun; rhetorical device of emphasizing a thing by pretending not to mention it; a kind of irony. "It would be unseemly for me to dwell on Senator Kennedy's drinking problem, and too many have already sensationalized his womanizing..." "We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare." Melville, Moby Dick