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negative pregnant
Noun
Japanese Meaning
（法的文脈で）否定形でありながら、実はその反対の肯定的事実を含んでいる表現。すなわち、一部の限定を否定することで、他の状況においては肯定をほのめかしている。
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(law) A denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, I have never consumed cocaine while on duty
might imply that the person making the statement had consumed cocaine on other occasions.
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negative pregnant
The lawyer argued that the defendant's statement amounted to a negative pregnant, since denying he had ever consumed the drug while on duty implied he might have consumed it on other occasions.
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The lawyer argued that the defendant's statement amounted to a negative pregnant, since denying he had ever consumed the drug while on duty implied he might have consumed it on other occasions.
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