单词 | preterition |
释义 | preteritionn. 1. Rhetoric. A figure in which attention is drawn to something by professing to omit it; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > emphasis by pretending to omit occupatio1550 occupation1550 paralipsis1550 passenger1589 preteritiona1602 apophasis1656 reticence1686 pretermission1728 a1602 W. Perkins Cloud of Faithfull Witnesses (1607) 493 This hee doth, by a Rhetoricall preterition or passing ouer, called in Schooles, Paralepsis. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (v. 1-2) 386 Such Ironicall preteritions are something frequent in Scripture. 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 165 Preterition is a kind of an Irony, and is when you say you let passe that which notwithstanding you touch at full. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The most artful Praises are those given by way of Preterition. 1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 41/1 Pretending to shield or conceal while really displaying: Parasiopesis; also called preterition. 1989 C. Fuentes & A. MacAdam tr. C. Fuentes Christopher Unborn (1990) iv. viii. 193 The otherness of a literature that was being produced, metonymically, at the level of syntagmatic structure, but which also, semantically, in successive preteritions constituted substantive constellations. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Oct. 52/1 She adapts another historical novelist's ploy, one which reminds us of Umberto Eco's remark that the favorite rhetorical trope of the historical novelists is preterition, i.e., saying that you are not going to say something and thereby saying it. 2. The act of passing over something without notice; omission, disregard; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > [noun] > fact of being preterition1609 disregardedness1841 ignoration1854 ignorability1922 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > negligence > oversight, omission, or negligence oversight1477 overslippinga1522 negligency1607 preterition1609 undersight1894 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > negligence > oversight, omission, or negligence > instance of oversight1531 overscape1581 overslip1584 preterition1609 neglect1611 inanimadvertence1656 inanimadversion1676 inadvertency1702 inadvertence1725 overlook1858 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 236 His voluntarie but subtile preter-ition, in leauing out all the other disasters in the Oath. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 318 As long as they are but preteritions, not contradictions..they are not worthy of a reproofe. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 208 A preterition..studiously and deliberatively resolved upon. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 6 Nov. (1886) II. 300 Upon which Dr. Lamphire..said he thought 'twould be the best way to pass by without going in. For said he, my Lord you know, & so do ye rest here, that Dr. Barlow loves præterition. 1877 W. Sparrow Serm. iii. 40 It is negative in its nature, and consists in the mere preterition and overlooking of the agency of the invisible God. 1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Dec. 1433/1 The Koran appears neither in the index of book-titles nor of subjects dealt with. The reasons for this preterition will become apparent when I assess its consequences. 3. Theology. Omission from God's elect; non-election to salvation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] tinsela1300 damnationc1340 perditiona1382 damningc1400 damnement1480 reprobationa1513 accursedness1549 condemnation1557 preterition1628 non-election1629 Tartarization1823 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. iv. ii. iii. 625 Our indiscreet Pastors..speake so much of election, predestination, reprobation ab æterno, subtraction of grace, preterition, voluntary permission, &c. 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica ii. 66 The Decree of Reprobation (both in the privativ act of preterition, and positiv of punishment) depends on Gods simple Prescience. 1726 E. Bird Fate & Destiny iii. 57 That rigid and frightful Doctrine of Absolute Reprobation, and Damnation; which you are forced to disguise with those invented and smoother terms, of Preterition, or Negative Reprobation. 1740 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VII. 375 Call it..by whatever name you please, Election, preterition, predestination, or reprobation, it comes in the end to the same thing. 1862 Evangelical Christendom Oct. 475 The præterition and consequent perdition of the majority of mankind does no violence to our sense, either of the Divine justice or sovereignty. 1899 T. T. Munger Horace Bushnell iii. 36 The same may be said of the doctrine of preterition; it was simply inhuman. 1999 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 41 121 In their response to preterition and predamnation, epic and treatise again are fundamentally in accord with each other and with Arminius. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time process1357 concoursec1400 coursec1460 successionc1485 passing-by1523 by-passing1526 slacka1533 continuancea1552 race1565 prolapse1585 current1587 decurse1593 passage1596 drifting1610 flux1612 effluxion1621 transcursion1622 decursion1629 devolution1629 progression1646 efflux1647 preterition1647 processus1648 decurrence1659 progress1664 fluxation1710 elapsing1720 currency1726 lapse1758 elapse1793 time-lapse1864 wearing1876 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 136/1 The præterition of life is the præterition of time. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Luke xix. 42) The time of grace is fitly called a day in regard of..speedy preterition. 5. Roman Law. The omission by a testator to mention in his or her will one of his or her children or natural heirs normally leading to the invalidation of the will (see quot. 1914). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > omission to mention one of natural heirs preterition1722 pretermission1795 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. xviii. 76 If it had been foreseen, that L would not so much as ask, and had therefore been left out of the will; this preterition would have been caused by his carriage. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 543/1 Preterition, the entire omission of a child's name in the father's will, which rendered it null: exheredation being allowed, but not preterition. 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Ulpian Rules xxviii, in tr. Gaius Institutes 429 (note) Praeterition of a suus invalidated a will. 1887 Tennant's Notary's Man. (ed. 5) 29 If a soldier upon a military expedition, in making his will, passed over his children in silence, such preterition was held of equal force with a nominal disinherison, and the will could not be set aside as inofficious. 1914 Bouvier's Law Dict. (ed. 3) III. 2682/1 Preterition, the omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a legitime in the succession. Among the Romans, the preterition of children when made by the mother was presumed to have been made by design; the preterition of sons by any other testator, was considered as a wrong, and avoided the will, except the will of a soldier in service, which was not subject to so much form. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1602 |
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