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prooftexts

prooftexts is the plural of prooftext.

Meaning of prooftext

Noun

prooftext (plural prooftexts)

  1. A decontextualized quotation 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 prooftexts

What is prooftexts the plural of?
Prooftexts is the plural of prooftext.

Words near prooftexts in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prooftexts (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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