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hysterosis en · NOUN

Etymology

From hystero- + -sis.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rhetoric) A hysteron proteron; hysterology.
    • Theſe ſimilitudes wherevnto God likeneth himſelfe, they are partlie in repect^([sic]) of his Church and children: and partlie in reſpect of the wicked. And that we may by an hyſteroſis beginne firſt with thoſe that concerne the wicked: […] 1606, Robert Allen, The Doctrine of the Gospel, London: […] Thomas Creede, page 85:

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