Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation; anticipatory; antecedent.
- Specifically — In medicine: Anticipating the usual time: noting a periodical disease whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every recurrence.
- Prognostic.
- In rhetoric, implying prolepsis.
- Axiomatic; of the nature of prolepsis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.
- adjective Previous; antecedent.
- adjective (Med.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a
calendar ,extrapolated todates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from theJulian calendar orGregorian calendar . - adjective Describes an event as having been assigned too early a date.
- adjective rhetoric Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised; procataleptic.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That's just called proleptic writing, and it's been around since, what, the times of the Ancient Greeks?
Comic Book Dictionary – Hang a Lampshade | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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This offered an uncannily accurate definition of the adjective 'proleptic' – attempting to come to terms with something that has yet to happen, or, to put it more cynically, getting your retaliation in first.
Newspapers go back in time to launch new attacks on the trade unions 2010
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The right likes to pretend it didn't lose; the center flatters itself that it's where all the vital action is; and at least some of the left is habituated to a kind of proleptic-disappointment mode, ready to jump ship two months before it sails.
Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We Have A Mandate" 2009
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Furthermore, their ideological interest in his doing so became his own over time and fully congruent with the atheistic triumphalism in Huxley's words of proleptic appreciation for the Origin: ‘You have killed God, Sir.’
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Ratiophobia, a label that herein fits, fits your own evasiveness and demonizing proleptic rhetoric.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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Instead of books the public is offered conformity via four-wall TV, with the sound piped directly into their heads via shell-shaped earbuds a brilliant proleptic leap on the part of Bradbury.
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While he was downstairs preparing for the universally known ending which lends any Passion theatre such a strange proleptic tension, I was still working out how we were going to get there.
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Potentiality would in this sense be not proleptic, but, again, a present force in consciousness.
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Ratiophobia, a label that herein fits, fits your own evasiveness and demonizing proleptic rhetoric.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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So, in the various Romantic precedents we find here, we can name Romantic psychic organization as the site of a profoundly productive ambivalence, at once foundational and proleptic.
Introduction 2008
qms commented on the word proleptic
Eschew all nuance, always assert;
Conditional language will cause alert.
Be never proleptic,
So sway the skeptic
That one so certain is surely expert.
December 24, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word proleptic
Miss you, qms.
March 15, 2022