Word Meaning

Meaning of "prolepsis" and the crossword clue

- A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
- A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
- An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
- 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.