prochronism

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  1. An error in chronology consisting in antedating something; the dating of an event before the time when it happened, or the representing of something as existing before it really did. The prochronisms in these [Towneley] Mysteries are very remarkable. Archæologia, XXVII. 252. (Davies.) “Puffed with wonderful skill” he [Lord Macaulay] introduces with the half-apology “to use the modern phrase”; and that though he had put the verb, and without prochronism, into the mouth of Osborne, the bookseller knocked down by Dr. Johnson. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 130.

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  1. = Portuguese prochronismo = Spanish Italian procronismo; from Greek πρόχρονος, preceding in time, previous (from πρό, before, + χρόνος, time), + -ism.
 

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