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noun
The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric, uncountable
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Synonyms: concession
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Latin concessiō. Doublet of concession.
