Definition of proleptically in US English:
proleptically
adverbproʊˈlɛptik(ə)liprōˈleptēk(ə)lē
Rhetoric See prolepsis
Example sentencesExamples
- In seeking to depict a ‘subversive’ antiauthoritarian Woolf, these scholars have tended to identify her proleptically with a certain strain of nihilistic postmodernism.
- A claim arises when one is in the right, proleptically or after some legal fact.
- Yet, to embody judgment proleptically in images is an important element of our Christian witness, a challenge to present sin, and an insistence that justice and maturity are both possible and promised.
- The proleptically elegiac texts of 1938-39 were more than simply expressions of private anxiety: their preoccupations and conclusions anticipated a significant strain of progressive political discourse during the war years.
- The church is that community which paradoxically celebrates the freedom of the gift and lives with seriousness the call, leaving the world and entering provisionally and proleptically into a different order of being.