"An example includes describing someone as ""not unattractive"" instead of ""attractive"". What name is given, in rhetoric, to a figure of speech in which a statement is expressed by denying its opposite?"
Meiosis (figure of speech) because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. (1 Corinthians 15:9–10) Meiosis (figure of speech) In rhetoric, meiosis is a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is. Meiosis is the opposite of auxesis, and also sometimes used as a synonym for litotes. The term is derived from the Greek "μειόω" (“to make smaller”, "to diminish"). The scientific term of meiosis was first developed by J. B.
A language is a dialect with an army and navy linguistics, who expressed it in Yiddish: The earliest known published source is Weinreich's article "Der YIVO un di problemen fun undzer tsayt" ( "The YIVO Faces the Post-War World"; literally "The YIVO and the problems of our time"), originally presented as a speech on 5 January 1945 at the annual YIVO conference. Weinreich did not give an English version. In the article, Weinreich presents this statement as a remark of an auditor at a lecture series given between 13 December 1943 and 12 June 1944: Weinreich observed that the phrase is a "wonderful expression of the social plight of Yiddish".