Prolepsis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROLEPSIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Greek) a rhetorical device of weakening objections by anticipating them
• the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.
• the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered.
• rhetorical device by which objections are anticipated and answered in advance
• A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
• A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
• An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
• 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.
• anticipating and answering objections in advance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• anticipation; as; the representation or assumption of a future act or development as if presently existing or accomplished; the application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation of the result of the action of the verb (as in “while yon slow oxen turn the furrowed plain”)

Words related to PROLEPSIS

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How to use PROLEPSIS in a sentence

• The name Prolepsis is also applied to the introduction of a noun or pronoun as object of the main clause where we should expect it to stand as subject of a subordinate clause.

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