Literary notes about Prospective (AI summary)
"Prospective" in literature frequently evokes a future that is anticipated but not yet actualized. Writers employ the term to denote forthcoming relationships or roles, as when a character is identified as someone’s future kin or partner ([1], [2], [3]), and it is similarly applied in descriptions where potential benefits, profits, or outcomes are at stake ([4], [5]). In more reflective or philosophical texts, the word underscores actions or intentions considered in terms of their future impact or evolving possibilities ([6], [7], [8]). Its use, whether to express the promise of joyous experiences ([9]) or the lure of moral or social implications ([10]), highlights literature’s fascination with the inevitable interplay between present actions and their prospective continuations.
- I want to show you your prospective aunt’s photograph.”
— from A Christian Woman by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de - Miss Morstan has done me the honor to accept me as a husband in prospective.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - "In view of your prospective alliance with the family I should like to consult you—to consider the case with you—before taking any farther steps.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - Finally, however, he came across a dozen carbines carefully wrapped and packed for a prospective shipment across the ocean.
— from The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen - The element of prospective profit is the only one that would interest them.
— from The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights, 1830-1864 by John F. (John Ferguson) Hume - He then infers certain prospective movements, thus assigning meaning to the bare facts of the given situation.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - I mean the view that volition is always determined by pleasures or pains actual or prospective.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick - Thinking, on the other hand, is prospective in reference.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - I was delighted, for my mind was full of the prospective joys and of the wonderful stories I had heard about the sea.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - Prospective sin is often clothed in very alluring garments; past sin appears in all its naked deformity.
— from The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
