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aposiopesis (n.)
rhetorical artifice wherein the speaker suddenly breaks off in the middle of a sentence, 1570s, from Latin, from Greek
aposiopesis
"a becoming silent," also as a rhetorical figure, from
apo-
(see
apo-
) +
siope
"silence."
