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proleptic

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
  2. adjective Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.
  3. adjective Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)
  4. noun An instance of prolepsis; The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond. Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning. A lateral branch that develops 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.
  5. noun The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
  6. noun Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning.
  7. noun A lateral branch that develops 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.
  8. noun Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.

Similar words

proleptical antepaschal prochronistic epagomenal previsionary previsional prolative preprophetic prevenient progestational

Often followed by

of and vision construction anticipation in reference or experience

Word family

prolepses prolepsis proleptically

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