proleptically

Examples

• All

• In this fragment, two things become proleptically clear for the future understanding of the Holocaust and twentieth-century history.

  Academic text (2008)

• Strategically placed at the initial stages of his development, this symbol-laden incident suggests proleptically his ulterior regeneration as he is introduced to the region.

  Academic text (2002)

• A person's cast image acts proleptically to conjure that body's future condition as a spirit or shade.

  Academic text (1995)

• Let's say more proleptically of its later usage at Nuremberg and beyond to refer to atrocity in war rather than the aggression of war.

• The flotation that lofts the rest of the system exempts just these two -- proleptically, and not surely through oversight.

  Academic text (1992)

• Just as in the humanity of Jesus, a tiny portion of creation has been brought to completion proleptically in the historical appearance of the absolute savior, so will the whole world be brought to completion eschatologically.

  Academic text (2009)

• Preparing for a war that obliterates all civilization and upends the delicate "nuclear balance of terror," we are not likely to survive the apocalypse that proleptically causes the stress.

  Academic text (2016)

• According to Jullian, the figure of Noronsoff is "un Lorrain agonisant" (275), proleptically figuring the writer who later would sign his own texts "le Cadavre."

  Academic text (1991)

• The author spoke proleptically, alluding to events that would shape the characters' lives later in the story.

• Her comments were proleptically insightful, predicting the challenges that the organization would face in the coming years.

Synonyms

P

prefiguratively

vsproleptically

• Literature

9.1

In a way that hints at something that will happen later

is used to anticipate or mention something before it happens

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology