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noun 
  1. A phrase in which there are two (adverbial) negatives or their compounds (no, not, never, none, etc) in a sentence, occasionally leading to ambiguity in the meaning, but necessary in some foreign languages. Not to be confused with the rhetorical device of litotes.

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