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Word: proleptic
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Describes an event as having been assigned too early a date.
- Of a calendar, extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
- rhetoric Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised; procataleptic.
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