Rhetoric. A figure of speech by which something is intentionally presented as smaller, less important, etc., than it really is; understatement…
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释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > understatement (2) meiosis1550 Rhetoric. A figure of speech by which something is intentionally presented as smaller, less important, etc., than it really is; understatement… disabler1589 Rhetoric. G. Puttenham's name for: the figure of speech meiosis (meiosis, n. 1). Cf. disable, v. 3. Obsolete. |
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