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"Prolepsis"
Keywords:
anticipated
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dumb
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adjective
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verb
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noun
A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
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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.
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anticipating and answering objections in advance
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Keywords:
hyperplastic
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chronology
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error
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symptom
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actual
An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
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A hyperplastic symptom of disease in which organs appear before the natural time. (Pl. prolepses.) ( 20)
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Keywords:
fucked
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truth
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assumption
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principle
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first
A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
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a figure in which a future situation is referred to as if it had already occurred. Example: "The first time he looked at me I was fucked." Not yet, really, but very soon.
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