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Prooftext Moderate

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Noun
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.

Verb
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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Rhyming Words
ext hext next sext text etext bitext detext urtext annext intext e text cotext pretext subtext context martext bissext surtext metatext
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