noun a figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
2. prolepsis ·noun a necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
3. prolepsis ·noun an error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
4. prolepsis ·noun the application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.