proleptic – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of proleptic

Adjective: proleptic

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore proleptic
Superlativemost proleptic

Sample Sentences

  • The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon. [1999, Kenneth R. Lang, Astrophysical Formulae: Space, Time, Matter and Cosmology, volume II, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:]
  • The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates preceding its official introduction in 1582. [2018, Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme, Introduction to Programming with Fortran, Springer, →ISBN, page 535:]
  • The .NET epoch is midnight at the start of January 1st, AD 1, although that's AD 1 in a proleptic Gregorian calendar, which refers to even more complexity we haven't talked about yet. [2022, Tomasz Lelek, Jon Skeet, Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to Make Good Programming Decisions, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 155:]
  • A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom. [1844, Thomas De Quincey, “Greece Under the Romans”, in Blackwood's Magazine:]
  • In contrast with physical death, spiritual death might be called metaphorical. It becomes proleptic when contrasted with the second and final death. [1892, Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff, The Problem of Immortality, page 208:]
  • Herbert Gorman’s life of Joyce was written not only when Finnegans Wake was a long way from completion but with the handicap of the subject himself insisting on a hagiography featuring a prolonged, if proleptic, martyrdom. [1985 June, Anthony Burgess, “The Prisoner of Fame”, in The Atlantic:]
  • In World Two, Jesus can be seen as the proleptic event, giving promise of God's vindication of creation in and through history. [1989, W. Paul Jones, Theological Worlds, Nashville: Abingdon Press, page 151:]
  • In a world of youth idolatry, we easily lose our proleptic quality after the first peak, and become regressive, looking back toward the peaks already passed. [1995, John S. Murphy, Frederic M. Hudson, The Joy of Old: A Guide to Successful Elderhood, page 41:]
  • Viewing the commons as a vehicle for a new world order, Randal Joy Thompson proposes ‘proleptic leadership’, which envisions how leaders will continue to be essential as the custodians of responsible agency and conscious choice. [2020, Randal Joy Thompson, Proleptic Leadership on the Commons:]
  • a 'proleptic' epithet describing the result of the hunt, means literally 'with leafage broken' and is formed from the stem of ἀγνύναι. [1904, Aeschylus, Arthur Woollgar Verrall, The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus, page 90:]
  • There was no proleptic suffix in Moabite, according to the present evidence. [1985, W. Randall Garr, Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E, page 168:]
  • Starting in the spring of the second year, one terminal indeterminate floral shoot ( I ) was included at every terminal proleptic shoot ( L ) that arose from each proleptic and sylleptic shoot in the summer and full flush of the previous year. [2005, Jaime Esteban Salvo, The Effect of Nitrogen and Plant Growth Regulators on Sylleptic and Proleptic Shoot Development of 'Hass' Avocado (Persea Americana Mill.), page 104:]
  • Submission, as is fitting for a dystopia written in the mode of the “not yet”, ends in a proleptic future tense, speaking of what will come for François and (with rather less authorial interest) for the people of France. [2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • 8) Be proleptic, a word that comes from the Greek for “anticipation.” That is, get the better of the major objection to your argument by raising and answering it in advance. [2017 August 26, Bret Stephens, “Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. English prolepsis
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
4. Proto-Italic *-ikos
5. Latin -icuslbor.
6. Old French -iquebor.
7. Middle English -ik
8. English -ic
9. English proleptic
10. From prolepsis (“anticipation”) + -ic.

Verbs referencing "proleptic"

Finnish Adjectives proleptinen.