prolepsis
(noun) anticipating and answering objections in advance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
prolepsis (countable and uncountable, plural prolepses)
(rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
(logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
(grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
(philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
(botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
(authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
• (representation of something that has occurred before its time): anachronism, flashforward, foreshadowing
• (anticipation of objection to an argument): procatalepsis
• (grammar, rhetoric): left dislocation
• (botany): syllepsis
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*lep"sis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
1. (Rhet.) (a) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall. (b) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
2. (Chron.)
Definition: An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
3. (Gram.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 January 2025
(noun) a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John’s wort
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