prompture
prompture noun: suggestion, incitement, or prompting.
Noun
prompture (countable and uncountable, plural promptures)
- suggestion, incitement, or prompting
- I'll to my brother:
Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,
Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.
That had he twenty heads to tender down
On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up,
Before his sister should her body stoop
To such abhorr'd pollution.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 4 - Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
Has not Love's whisper evermore
Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar?1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Recollections of Love
- I'll to my brother:
Forms of prompture
| plural | promptures |
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Origin of prompture
From prompt + -ure.
Questions about prompture
- What does prompture mean?
- Prompture means suggestion, incitement, or prompting.
- What part of speech is prompture?
- Prompture is a noun.
- What is the plural of prompture?
- The plural of prompture is promptures.
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