The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protension
Protension \Pro*ten"sion\, n. [L. protensio.]
A drawing out; extension. [R.]
--Sir W. Hamilton.
Wiktionary
protension
n. A draw out; extension; stretching.
Usage examples of "protension".
At the moment of textual closure, the process of protension has ceased, for there is no more text for the reader to anticipate.
Everybody who saw the march, saw that the Champion of the Teetotallers was half seas over, and noted also that his brother, who made no hypocritical protensions to extra temperance virtues, was dignified and sober.