(adj) anticipatory; a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to their own argument and then immediately answers it; also called procatalepsis
By the time of David Ben Gurion’s proclamation, “Zion” ceased to be a proleptic ideal or symbol and began to be an archaeological site with borders to defend.
David Boyd has a conversion proleptic of Chris Fogle's
The saté would get between your teeth. He had toothpicks with him and handed me some proleptically.
lmao that's good
"Procatalepsis is for pussies," like you used to say.
didn't realise it was the same as prolepsis
the most absolute kind of debt, original sin, appears as the most foolproof way to give meaning, proleptically, to one’s death, an act that thus becomes a way to ensure that one’s debts will never be paid except by the God who granted them
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Moments of prolepsis are repeated throughout Goon Squad¸ and particularly in “Safari.”
the signature prolepsis in Garcia Marquez's first sentence