Crossword-Solution: PROLEPSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prolepsis | n. | A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. |
| Prolepsis | n. | A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle. |
| Prolepsis | n. | An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time. |
| Prolepsis | n. | The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb. |
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| anticipating and answering objections in advance | 1 answer |
| rhetorical device by which objections are anticipated and answered in advance | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
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Sentences with PROLEPSIS (4)
The name Prolepsis is also applied to the introduction of a noun or pronoun as object of the main clause where we should expect it to stand as subject of a subordinate clause.
Would it not be truly marvellous if a volume, printed by Robert Stephens in 1556, could in that year have presented, by prolepsis, to its precocious owner a version which Bened.
This seems more probable, though it might be argued, from the prolepsis about reading the ‘Book of Articles’ on the 14th, that the minutes of both days were written together, on the second day, and that the hugger-mugger described applies to the work of both days.
The bark of a tree, which according to the theory of Prolepsis gives rise to the calyx of the flower, he compared to the skin of a caterpillar, the expansion of the calyx to the casting of the skin, and the act of flowering to the metamorphosis by which the caterpillar is converted into a moth or butterfly.