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- (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
- (rhetoric) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
- (grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
- (philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e., a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
- (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.
- (narratology) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
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