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prologetic

UK/pɹɒləˈd͡ʒiːtɪk/

prologetic adjective: occurring in or serving as a prologue.

Adjective

prologetic (not comparable)

  1. (rare, also quasi-substantive) Occurring in or serving as a prologue.
    • PROLOGETIC. Description of Prison of Weltevreden [etc.…] 11855, Walter Murray Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden, Contents, page ix
    • The simple matter-of-fact style of the narrative is, from its unobtrusive character, more adapted for spiritual reading than the views and generalisations, and prologetic extenuations of more recent biographers.1873, R.F. Calixte, translated by A.V.S. Sligo, The Life of the Venerable Anna Maria Taigi, page 303

Origin of prologetic

Probably either from the Latin prologēticus or formed in English as prologue + -etic, in both cases resembling a hypothetical Ancient Greek etymon of the form *προλογητικός (prologētikós), from πρόλογος (prólogos, “prologue”) + -ητικός (-ētikós, “-etic”), a formation akin to the extant words ἀναλογητικός (analogētikós, “analogetic”) (from ἀνάλογος (análogos), whence analogue), ἀπολογητικός (apologētikós, “apologetic”) (from ἀπόλογος (apólogos), whence apologue), and ὁμολογητικός (homologētikós, “homologetic”) (from ὁμόλογος (homólogos), whence homologue).

Questions about prologetic

What does prologetic mean?
Prologetic means occurring in or serving as a prologue.
What part of speech is prologetic?
Prologetic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce prologetic?
Prologetic is pronounced /pɹɒləˈd͡ʒiːtɪk/ (UK).

Words near prologetic in the dictionary

  1. prolocutresses
  2. prolocutrices
  3. prolocutrix
  4. prolog
  5. prologed
  6. prologetic
  7. prologing
  8. prologise
  9. prologised
  10. prologises
  11. prologising

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