Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By prolepsis; in a proleptic manner; by way of anticipation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a proleptical manner.
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- adverb In a
proleptic manner;anticipatorily .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Abram next pitched his tent near "Bethel," here so called proleptically, see Ge 28: 19.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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By means of temporal entanglement with just a little Robinsonian hand-waving, Galileo is brought "proleptically" forward to lend his prestige to the debate over what to do.
Covering Covers: Galileo's Dream Patrick 2009
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"proleptically," and the court saw in the very word another proof of the clerk's masterly official genius.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878
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Shelley's life/writings proleptically redesign Freudian accounts of the pre-Oedipal, the literary dimensions of phantasy, and the alleged passivity of girls.
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A mediating position interprets the command to marry the immoral Gomer proleptically (after the fact): Gomer was chaste at the time of marriage, but subsequently became unfaithful to Hosea as an adulteress, a common harlot, or a temple prostitute.
Gomer: Bible. 2009
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What this play calls “history,” then, is an activity that explodes any continuum between a present, a past that would make the present possible, and a future that the present proleptically (and later retrospectively) grounds.
Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist 2006
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But Mr. Goldberg is eager to see everything in a simplifying, Manichean way: All that is not libertarian is at least proleptically fascist.
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Who but Ms. Kuczynski would have noticed that Hemingway proleptically described what we recognize today as a bad face-lift?
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They were all ready to exclaim again: but I went on, proleptically, as a rhetorician would say, before their voices would break out into words.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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So that, literally speaking, as a good man would infer, guilt is its own punisher: in that it makes the most lofty spirit look like the miscreant he is — a good man, I say: So, Jack, proleptically I add, thou hast no right to make the observation.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
minerva commented on the word proleptically
They were all ready to exclaim again: but I went on, proleptically, as a rhetorician would say, before their voices could break out into words.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
January 9, 2008