Prompture
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Prompture is a noun meaning (obsolete) suggestion, incitement, or prompting.
Meaning
(obsolete) suggestion, incitement, or prompting.
Example Sentences
Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep, Has not Love's whisper evermore Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar?
I'll to my brother: Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood, Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour. That had he twenty heads to tender down On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up, Before his sister should her body stoop To such abhorr'd pollution.
Word Forms
- promptures
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prompt, prodding, promptress, precipitant, proompt, preintimation.
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