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prooftexting

prooftexting is the present participle and gerund 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 prooftexting

What is prooftexting the present participle and gerund of?
Prooftexting is the present participle and gerund of prooftext.

Words near prooftexting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prooftexting (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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