Usually means: Anticipation and answering of objections.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. prolepsis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prolepsis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prolepsis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prolepsis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prolepsis: Vocabulary.com
  6. prolepsis: Wordnik
  7. prolepsis: Wiktionary
  8. prolepsis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. prolepsis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. prolepsis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Prolepsis, prolepsis: Dictionary.com
  12. prolepsis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Prolepsis (disambiguation), Prolepsis (rhetoric), Prolepsis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Prolepsis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. prolepsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. prolepsis: Rhymezone
  17. Prolepsis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. prolepsis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. prolepsis: Free Dictionary
  20. prolepsis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. prolepsis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. prolepsis: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. PROLEPSIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prolepsis: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prolepsis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prolepsis, prolepsis: A Word A Day

(Note: See prolepses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prolepsis)

noun:  (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
noun:  (rhetoric) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
noun:  (grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
noun:  (philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
noun:  (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
noun:  (narratology) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.

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