proleptic

Variant of prolepsis

noun pl. prolepses

an anticipating; esp., the describing of an event as taking place before it could have done so, the treating of a future event as if it had already happened, or the anticipating and answering of an argument before one's opponent has a chance to advance it

Origin: L < Gr prolēpsis, an anticipating < prolambanein, to take before < pro-, before + lambanein, to take: see lemma

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