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Prolepsis
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noun
Prolepsis
n.
1.
(Rhet.)
(a)
A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
(b)
A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
2.
(Chron.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
3.
(Gram.) 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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