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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
litotes
n
understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"
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litotes
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meiosis
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