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promptures

promptures is the plural of prompture.

Meaning of prompture

Noun

prompture (countable and uncountable, plural promptures)

  1. (obsolete) 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

Questions about promptures

What is promptures the plural of?
Promptures is the plural of prompture.

Words near promptures in the dictionary

  1. promptscript
  2. promptscripts
  3. promptuaries
  4. promptuary
  5. prompture
  6. promptures
  7. proms
  8. promulgate
  9. promulgated
  10. promulgater
  11. promulgaters

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