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noun
The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A so-called "preconception", i.e., a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: epistemology, human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, narratology, sciences
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noun
anticipating and answering objections in advance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rhetorical device
History
From Latin prolepsis, from Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis, “preconception, anticipation”), from προλαμβάνω (prolambánō, “take beforehand, anticipate”).
Across languages
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