epanorthosis

An epanorthosis is a figure of speech that signifies emphatic word replacement.

Here the words in italics are technically the epanorthoses, although all of the words following the dash may be considered part of the epanorthosis as well.

This sequence is still used humorously for epanorthosis by computer literates, denoting the deletion of a pretended blunder, much like a strikethrough.

More often, however, epanorthosis signifies immediate and emphatic self-correction, and as such often follows a Freudian slip (either accidental or deliberate).

Epanorthosis or perspective ... (1642) contain polemical overtones, directed against the Julian calendar and the liturgical rites of the Orthodox Churches at that time and the Uniate.

Vickers also attempts to show that Shakespeare is much more adapt at employing rhetorical devices than Peele; and gives numerous examples throughout the play of the use of antimetabole, anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epizeuxis, articulus, epanorthosis, epistrophe, aposiopesis, anaphora, polyptoton, synoeciosis, polysyndeton and asteismus.