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(2) But, if we follow Schwarzbach, Dickens's description of the street mire in Holborn is, if anything, understated - u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510mudu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is not hyperbole, but litotes .

(3) First one must register his anti-Idealism, his antipathy toward the idea becoming metonymical litotes for such.

(4) Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes , or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony.

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