Protend
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɹəʊˈtɛnd/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Protend is a verb meaning (phenomenology) To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.
Meaning
(phenomenology) To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, transitive) To hold out; to stretch forth.
Example Sentences
With his protended lance he makes defence.
Consciousness may not protend everything in the horizon; there is too much.
Instead, our retentions are made up of al the words I have spoken, and we protend toward the completion of my sentence or idea.
At the moment that the first beat is sounded, if the listener is to hear it as a division of a larger temporal unit, he or she must concretely protend the other beats of the bar; that is, the listener must experience, in the temporal "space" of the near future, three more beats while he or she is hearing the present beat in the now-point.
Word Forms
- protends
- protending
- protended
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pretend, outhold, protract, intend, reach, tend.
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