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Definition of Prolepsis

Prolepsis
Prolepsis Pro*lep"sis, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? to take beforehand; ? before + ? to take.] 1. (Rhet.) (a) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. --Abp. Bramhall. (b) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle. 2. (Chron.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time. 3. (Gram.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.

Meaning of Prolepsis from wikipedia

- Look up prolepsis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prolepsis may refer to: Prolepsis (rhetoric), a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an...
- Procatalepsis, also called prolepsis or prebuttal, is a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to their own argument and then immediately...
- a great cataclysm. This is both analepsis and prolepsis. Muriel Spark makes extensive use of prolepsis in her 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie...
- Asilidae has one record for Prolepsis lucifer feeding on the dung beetle Canthidium globulum and four records for Prolepsis tristis feeding on the following...
- Prolepsis tristis is a species of robber flies (insects in the family Asilidae). "Prolepsis tristis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System....
- fill in crucial backstory. In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events that will occur in the ****ure. Both flashback and flashforward...
- Prolepsis is the second album by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music). Side One "Six Wings" (Kirkland) – 3:20 "Bad...
- ascending to godhood after transcending the world's RPG system. In the prolepsis, she has acquired a human form and serves as the commander of the 10th...
- collusion conjuncture and conjecture eclipse and ellipse excise and exercise prolepsis and proslepsis continuous and contiguous affect and effect upmost and...
- had already come, there could have been no redemption" – Mosiah 16:6 Prolepsis (rhetoric) "I perish" is in what is normally imperfect tense in the original...