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Definition: Prolepsis |
ProlepsisNoun1. Anticipating and answering objections in advance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prolepsis" was first used: 1577. (references) |
Etymology: Prolepsis \Pro*lep"sis\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to take beforehand; before to take.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Anachronism | Noun: anachronism, metachronism, parachronism, prochronism; prolepsis, misdate; anticipation, antichronism. |
Precursor | Prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork; preparation; overture, exordium, symphony; premises. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prolepsis (from the Greek prolambanein, to anticipate) is a grammatical construction that consists of placing an element in a previous syntactic unit to which it would logically correspond.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prolepsis."
Crosswords: Prolepsis |
| English words defined with "prolepsis": Proleptical. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prolepsis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (prolepsis). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prolepsis | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "prolepsis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόληψη (prejudice, prevention, superstition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olepsispray prolepsis. (various references) erken kullanılma. (various references) пролепсис. (various references) sự đón trước. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | prolepsis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Prolepsis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prolapses, prolypsis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "prolepsis" (pronounced 'Pro*lep"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Asepsis, Athetosis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-o-p-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: slippers, sloppier, spoilers. | |
-2 letters: lippers, lispers, loppers, loppier, lorises, oppress, plessor, poisers, popsies, propels, prossie, ripples, rissole, sippers, slipper, slopers, soppier, splores, spoiler. | |
-3 letters: lessor, lipper, lisper, lopers, lopper, lories, losers, oilers, oriels, osiers, peplos, perils, pilose, pipers, pisser, pliers, plisse, poiser, poises, poleis, polers, polies, popsie, posers, posies, prises, proles, propel, proses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-o-p-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: propolises. | |
+2 letters: leptospires, popularises. | |
+3 letters: oppressively, oversupplies, philosophers, polariscopes, polydisperse, spermophiles. | |
+4 letters: laparoscopies, leptospiroses, leptospirosis, perspicuously, pleomorphisms. | |
+5 letters: amphiprostyles, cephalosporins, lepidopterists, philosophizers, polydispersity, sporopollenins, superdiplomats, superimposable. | |
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