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Pro   /proʊ/   Listen
preposition
Pro  prep.  A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
Pro confesso (Law), taken as confessed. The action of a court of equity on that portion of the pleading in a particular case which the pleading on the other side does not deny.
Pro rata. In proportion; proportion.
Pro re nata (Law), for the existing occasion; as matters are.


adverb
Pro  adv.  For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; in contrast with con.
Pro and con, for and against, on the affirmative and on the negative side; as, they debated the question pro and con; formerly used also as a verb.
Pros and cons, the arguments or reasons on either side.


prefix
Pro-  pref.  A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.





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"Pro" Quotes from Famous Books



... have turned for the better; but in India that is by no means clear to me. I hope our Government has discovered its error as regards America.... The glorious patriotism and unanimity of the North none could absolutely foresee; but that the attempt to break up the Union would goad the pro-slavery faction of the North into intense hostility of feeling to the South, appeared to me so clear and certain that I predicted it in print. That their backers and merchants should so lavish their private fortunes for the war was more ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking
... Skinner; that's 'Whiz' Long. Six years ago I saw him win the Sheffield Handicap from scratch in nine-three." Then, as Speed did not seem to be particularly pressed, "Don't you understand, Wally? He's a pro; this is his game!" ...
— Going Some • Rex Beach
... fall in with the story in page 225 about the talk of the time of his outlawry at the Thing. The question is stated to have been this: whether he had been a fraction of the twentieth year an outlaw, his friends hoping that in such case a part might count pro toto. But the truth of the matter was that he had neither been an outlaw for a fraction of the twentieth year, nor even for anything like nineteen years. He was outlawed at the Thing held in 1016, his year of outlawry ...
— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
... your soul would not exist? Where will you find a poetry more touching than that of these symbols and of these epitaphs? That admirable De Rossi showed me one at Saint Calixtus last year. My tears flow as I recall it. 'Pete pro Phoebe et pro virginio ejus'. Pray for Phoebus and for—How do you translate the word 'virginius', the husband who has known only one wife, the virgin husband of a virgin spouse? Your youth will pass, Dorsenne. You will one day feel what I feel, the happiness which is ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... pro-German conversation of one of the guests at an American dinner-party the English butler poured the gravy over him. The story is believed to have greatly annoyed the starving millionaires in Berlin. They complain that their exiled fellow-countrymen ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 • Various


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