apophasis
apophasis \uh-POF-uh-sis\, noun
Denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is at the same time named or insinuated, as ?I shall not mention Caesar's avarice, nor his cunning, nor his morality.?
But I think that anything that is deep isn't love, it's deliberate calculation or schizophrenia. I myself wouldn't even attempt to say what love is - probably both love and God can only be defined by apophasis, through those things that they are not.
-- Viktor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
"?Now, I have no desire to be a backseat driver?? Apophasis, Chris thought; saying you're not going to say something in order to say it. Nixon's favorite device, and Newt Gingrich's, and Karl Rove's?fine old
Republican tradition.
-- John Barnes, Directive 51
Apophasis stems from the Greek word ap�pha meaning "to say no, deny." The suffix -sis appears in Greek
loanwords, where it forms an abstract noun from a verb, as in thesis.
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mucro
mucro \MYOO-kroh\, noun
A short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
The outward surface of it was extremely slippery, and the mucro, or point, so very cold withal, that upon endeavoring to take hold of it, it glided through the fingers like a smooth piece of ice.
-- Richard Hughes, Spectator, No. 281
Munro holds that it must be "from the mucro or point of the stylus setting a mark at each end of any length you wish to note."
-- William Ellery Leonard, De Rerum Natura
Mucro stems from Latin word mucro meaning "sharp point."
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