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Oxford English Dictionary
Aposiopesis: A rhetorical artifice, in which the speaker comes to a sudden halt, as if unable or unwilling to proceed.
1578 T. Timme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Gen. 146 A figure called Aposiopesis, after the which something not expressed is to be understood.
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