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prooftexted

prooftexted is the simple past and past participle of prooftext.

Meaning of prooftext

Verb

prooftext (third-person singular simple present prooftexts, present participle prooftexting, simple past and past participle prooftexted)

  1. 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.

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Questions about prooftexted

What is prooftexted the simple past and past participle of?
Prooftexted is the simple past and past participle of prooftext.

Words near prooftexted in the dictionary

  1. proofs positive
  2. proofs-of-concept
  3. proofsheet
  4. proofsheets
  5. prooftext
  6. prooftexted
  7. prooftexting
  8. prooftexts
  9. proompt
  10. proompted
  11. proompter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prooftexted (page history and authors); prooftext (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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