prolepsis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
  2. The anticipation of an objection to an argument. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
    — Prolepsis makes objections; then replies; And wisely thus anticipates surprise.
  3. A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
  4. A so-called "preconception", i.e., a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world. countable,uncountable
    — Point (1) seems to imply that one may have a false judgement because of a mismatch between different criteria for truth. For example, my sensation is paired with a prolepsis of a horse, therefore I make an assertion that ‘there is a horse’, which upon further inspection may turn out to be a cow.
  5. Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem. countable,uncountable
  6. The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device. countable,uncountable
    — […] [Edmund] Plovvden being of the Romiſh perſvvaſion, ſome Setters trapanned him (pardon the prolepſis) to hear Maſſe: But aftervvards Plovvden underſtanding, that the pretender to Officiate vvas no Prieſt, but a meer Lay-man (on deſigne to make a diſcovering) Oh! The caſe is altered quoth Plovvden: No Priest, no Maſſe.

词形变化

prolepses plural

词汇关系

近义词
left dislocation cataphora anachronism flashforward foreshadowing
反义词
syllepsis
衍生词
proleptic
相关词
-lepsy syllepsis

词源

From Latin prolepsis, from Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis, “preconception, anticipation”), from προλαμβάνω (prolambánō, “take beforehand, anticipate”).
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