meaning of prolepsis

1. A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
2.
A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
3.
An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
4.
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.
5.
anticipating and answering objections in advance


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