prolepsis

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for prolepsis

prolepsis 🔊

prolepsis : ප්‍රලම්බනය

prolepsis definition

Noun.

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