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Prolepsis   Listen
noun
Prolepsis  n.  
1.
(Rhet.)
(a)
A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
(b)
A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
2.
(Chron.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
3.
(Gram.) 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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"Prolepsis" Quotes from Famous Books



... this as all mere mysticism. We answer, The living internal energy of religion is always mystical, it is grounded in feeling—a "sensus numinis" common to humanity. It is the mysterious sentiment of the Divine; it is the prolepsis of the human spirit reaching out towards the Infinite; the living susceptibility of our spiritual nature stretching after the powers and influences of the higher world. It is upon this inner instinct of the supernatural that all religion rests. I do not say every religious ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker


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