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- noun The practice of using
decontextualized quotations from adocument (often, but not always, a book of theBible ) to establish aproposition rhetorically through anappeal toauthority .
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Examples
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As the truism states "a text without a context is a pretext for a prooftext."
Rev. Margaret Aymer, Ph. D.: On Minas, Occupations And Tony Perkins Rev. Margaret Aymer 2011
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As the truism states "a text without a context is a pretext for a prooftext."
Rev. Margaret Aymer, Ph. D.: On Minas, Occupations And Tony Perkins Rev. Margaret Aymer 2011
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Maude's willingness to accept Angelica's interpretation of this verse again signals her inability to read properly--this time, because she fails to realize that Angelica's prooftext doesn't hold up when restored to its original context.
Books 2009
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Maude's willingness to accept Angelica's interpretation of this verse again signals her inability to read properly--this time, because she fails to realize that Angelica's prooftext doesn't hold up when restored to its original context.
Academic 2009
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Maude's willingness to accept Angelica's interpretation of this verse again signals her inability to read properly--this time, because she fails to realize that Angelica's prooftext doesn't hold up when restored to its original context.
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Maude's willingness to accept Angelica's interpretation of this verse again signals her inability to read properly--this time, because she fails to realize that Angelica's prooftext doesn't hold up when restored to its original context.
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The prooftext frequently cited for this unilateral ruling was Genesis 35: 11, where Jacob is commanded in the second person masculine singular to “Be fertile and increase.”
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Maude's willingness to accept Angelica's interpretation of this verse again signals her inability to read properly--this time, because she fails to realize that Angelica's prooftext doesn't hold up when restored to its original context.
Religion 2009
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The prooftext had been written nearly three generations earlier by Langston Hughes: One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, ‘I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet,’ meaning, I believe, ‘I want to write like a white poet.’
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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The prooftext had been written nearly three generations earlier by Langston Hughes: One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, ‘I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet,’ meaning, I believe, ‘I want to write like a white poet.’
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