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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 792 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LITOTES (Gr. XtrOrzls, plainness, ALTOS,
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plain,
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simple, smooth) , a rhetorical figure in which emphasis is secured for a statement by turning it into a denial of the contrary, e.g . " a
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citizen of no mean
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city," i.e. a citizen of a famous city, "A. is not a
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man to be neglected."
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Litotes is sometimes used for what should be more strictly called "meiosis" (Gr . µeiwves, lessening, diminution, peiow, lesser), where the expressions used apparently are weak or understated, but the effect is to intensify .

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