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Word: prolepsis (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A grammatical construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond. ''That noise, I just heard it again.'' rfex
  • A philosophical concept used in ancient epistemology to indicate a so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
  • rhetoric The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
  • The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. rfex
  • The representation of something which has occurred before its time. ''I'm a dead man.''

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