Anticipating and answering objections in advance

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. anticipating and answering objections in advance [also: prolepses (pl)]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prolepsis \Pro*lep"sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? to take beforehand; ? before + ? to take.] (Rhet.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. --Abp. Bramhall. A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle. (Chron.) An ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Prolepsis may refer to: Prolepsis (album) , by Arrogance Prolepsis (rhetoric) , a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection and then immediately answers it Cataphora , using an expression or word that co-refers with a later expression in ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. 2 (context logic English) The anticipation of an objection to an argument. 3 (context grammar rhetoric English) A construction that consists of placing an ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "the taking of something anticipated as already done or existing," from Latin prolepsis , from Greek prolepsis "an anticipating," literally "a taking beforehand," from prolambanein "to take before," from pro- "before" (see pro- ) + lambanein "to ...