Oxímoro is, according to the dictionary Houaiss, a figure in which words are combined in ways that seem to exclude opposing each other, but in context, reinforcing an expression.
For example: the cry of silence, deafening silence, black light, contentment unhappy, illustrious unknown, and so on.
Superior School of War, in another example, is an oxymoron, in [...]
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