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   prolepsis

   /prə(ʊ)ˈlɛpsɪs/

   noun

   • 1. the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.
   • 2. the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered. "the destruction of the Vendôme Column and his part in it are foreshadowed in moments of haunting prolepsis"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a term in rhetoric): via late Latin from Greek prolēpsis, from prolambanein ‘anticipate’, from pro ‘before’ + lambanein ‘take’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. proleptic adjective
   • 2. proleptically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 13

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