PROLEPSIS

prolepsis

(noun) anticipating and answering objections in advance

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (representation of something that has occurred before its time): anachronism, flashforward, foreshadowing

• (anticipation of objection to an argument): procatalepsis

• (grammar, rhetoric): left dislocation

Antonyms

• (botany): syllepsis

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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