Citations:proleptic


 * 1925, John Dewey. Experience and Nature In The Later Works of John Dewey, Vol. 1, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale (IL), p. 150:
 * When we name an event, calling it fire, we speak proleptically; we do not name an immediate event; that is impossible. We employ a term of discourse; we invoke a meaning, namely, the potential consequence of the existence.
 * 1989, W. Paul Jones. Theological Worlds Abingdon Press, Nashville, p. 151:
 * In World Two, Jesus can be seen as the proleptic event, giving promise of God's vindication of creation in and through history.