"proleptically" meaning in English

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      "form": "more proleptically",
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      "form": "most proleptically",
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          "ref": "1925, John Dewey. Experience and Nature In The Later Works of John Dewey, Vol. 1, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale (IL), p. 150",
          "text": "When we name an event, calling it fire, we speak proleptically; we do not name an immediate event; that is impossible. We employ a term of discourse; we invoke a meaning, namely, the potential consequence of the existence."
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          "ref": "2021 July 28, Jesse Green, “Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Fullerton, in real life apparently a magnetic, equal opportunity Lothario[…]is written here[…] as more of a puppy than a hound, making campy references to Wharton by her childhood name, Pussy Jones, and proleptically quoting Mae West.",
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        "In a proleptic manner; anticipatorily."
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  "word": "proleptically"
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