NOUN
- reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')
- the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
How To Use hysteron proteron In A Sentence
- I will further spare four out of the seven figures of less note: emphasis, enallage, and the hysteron proteron you must have; because emphasis graces Irish diction, enallage unbinds it from strict grammatical fetters, and hysteron proteron allows it sometimes to put the cart before the horse. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
- Christians (and not of Jews), the only doubtful point being whether the use of “Christiani” (“quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat”) is not a hysteron proteron. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries