prolepsis

prolepsis is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

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

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