prooftext
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
prooftext (plural prooftexts)
- A decontextualized quotation from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.
Verb[edit]
prooftext (third-person singular simple present prooftexts, present participle prooftexting, simple past and past participle prooftexted)
- To use decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.
References[edit]
- Prooftext, Prooftexting, in Definition of Christian Terms