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9-letter words (1 found)

PROLEPSIS,

8-letter words (3 found)

SLIPPERS,SLOPPIER,SPOILERS,

7-letter words (27 found)

ESPOIRS,LIPPERS,LISPERS,LOPPERS,LOPPIER,LOPPIES,LORISES,LOSSIER,OPPRESS,PIPLESS,PLESSOR,POISERS,POLISES,POPSIES,PORPESS,PROPELS,PROSSIE,RIPPLES,RISSOLE,SIPPERS,SIPPLES,SLIPPER,SLOPERS,SLOPIER,SOPPIER,SPLORES,SPOILER,

6-letter words (57 found)

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5-letter words (103 found)

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4-letter words (104 found)

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3-letter words (55 found)

ELS,ERS,ESS,IOS,IRE,ISO,LEI,LEP,LES,LIE,LIP,LIS,LOP,LOR,LOS,OES,OIL,OIS,OLE,OPE,OPS,ORE,ORS,OSE,PEL,PEP,PER,PES,PIE,PIP,PIR,PIS,POI,POL,POP,POS,PRE,PRO,PSI,REI,REO,REP,RES,RIP,ROE,SEI,SEL,SER,SIP,SIR,SIS,SOL,SOP,SOS,SRI,

2-letter words (18 found)

EL,ER,ES,IO,IS,LI,LO,OE,OI,OP,OR,OS,PE,PI,PO,RE,SI,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 369 words from prolepsis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of prolepsis

prolepsis

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈlɛpsɪs/

Noun

prolepsis (countable and uncountable, plural prolepses)

  1. (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
  2. (logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
  3. (grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
  4. (philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
  5. (botany) 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.
  6. (authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.

Synonyms

  • (representation of something that has occurred before its time): anachronism, flashforward, foreshadowing
  • (anticipation of objection to an argument): procatalepsis
  • (grammar, rhetoric): left dislocation

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "botany"): syllepsis

Derived terms

  • proleptic

Related terms

  • -lepsy
  • syllepsis

Translations

References

  • Silva Rhetoricae

Spanish

Noun

prolepsis f (plural prolepsis)

  1. prolepsis

Further reading

  • “prolepsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org