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Prolepsis

PROLEP'SIS PROLEP'SY, n. [Gr. to take.] 1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented. 2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anac...

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PROLEP'SIS

PROLEP'SY, n. [Gr. to take.]

1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism.

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