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Pro   /proʊ/   Listen
preposition
Pro  prep.  A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
Pro confesso (Law), taken as confessed. The action of a court of equity on that portion of the pleading in a particular case which the pleading on the other side does not deny.
Pro rata. In proportion; proportion.
Pro re nata (Law), for the existing occasion; as matters are.


adverb
Pro  adv.  For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; in contrast with con.
Pro and con, for and against, on the affirmative and on the negative side; as, they debated the question pro and con; formerly used also as a verb.
Pros and cons, the arguments or reasons on either side.


prefix
Pro-  pref.  A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.





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... reported to have borne with stoical fortitude every harsh epithet of the language, until it occurred to her opponent to tell her that "the divil a bit better she was nor a pronoun;" so Mrs. Mulrooney, taking "omne ignotum pro horribili," became perfectly beside herself at the unlucky phrase. "I'm what? repate it av ye dare, and I'll tear yer eyes out? Ye dirty bla—guard, to be lying there at yer ease under the blankets, grinning at me. ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever
... have to lock him up in his cabin in order to get the ship," Mr. Skinner struck in, a note of alarm in his voice. "Mike Murphy is so pro-German—" ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... the middle classes sat, usually upon cushions which they brought with them; the men of rank sat in the orchestra below, on chairs of state carried thither by their slaves. Flanking the orchestra, and elevated considerably above it, are observable two divisions, appropriated, one perhaps to the pro-consul, or duumvirs and their officers, the other to the vestal virgins, or to the use of the person who gave the entertainments. This is the more likely, because in the smaller theatre, where these boxes, if we may call them so, are also found, they ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... Christianity. The following is the inscription on Thorndike's tomb at Westminster "Tu lector, requiem ei et beatam in Xto resurrectionem precare". On Bp. Barrow's tomb at S. Asaph's "O vos transeuntes in domum Domini, domum orationis, orate pro conservo vestro ut inveniat requiem in die Domini". Both were written by their own direction: other Protestant testimonies may be seen ap. ...
— The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome • Charles Michael Baggs
... as in North Carolina, Federal power extended as far as Federal guns could throw Federal shot, though Tennessee had not been renowned for her extreme attachment to slavery. But the heavy weight on the Presidential mind came from the Free States, in which the Pro-Slavery party was so powerful, and the nature of the war was so little understood, that it was impossible for Government to strike an effective blow at the source of the enemy's strength. Before that could be done, it would be necessary that the Northern ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various


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