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Word: proleptic (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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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