Prooftext
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Prooftext is a noun meaning A decontextualized quotation from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.
Meaning
A decontextualized quotation from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.
More Meanings
- To use decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.
Word Forms
- prooftexts
- prooftexting
- prooftexted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anthypophora, epexegesis, prophetry, epicrisis, procatalepsis, byword.
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