concessio means the rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
concessio is pronounced /kənˈsɛsi.əʊ/.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin concessiō. Doublet of concession.
noun
- The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.“This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.”