Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, the use of the present tense instead of the past or future, as in a vivid narration of a past or prediction of a future event.
- noun The nativity.
- noun The second advent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rhetoric A
figure of speech by which thepresent tense is used instead of thepast or thefuture , as in theanimated narration of past events or theprediction of future ones.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek παρουσία (prousia, "presence").
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Examples
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The belief in the "end" of the world and the parusia is part of the basics that constituted earliest Christianity.
Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009
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