How To Use Preterition In A Sentence
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For the second kind of Predestination places election, with regard to the end, before the fall; it also places before that event preterition, [or passing by,] which is the first part of reprobation.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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(Let me again remind our readers that the rhetorical figure I so much enjoy using is called preterition, as in: "If I were as mean as my opponent, I would remind him that his mother sold not only homemade cakes to her male customers, but, being a gentleman, I will pass over that fact.")
OUPblog
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Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.
Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
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Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.
Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
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Indeed no others are damned, except those who are the subjects of this act of preterition.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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That, dear readers, was as fine an example of preterition as you're likely to see on the Internet on a Wednesday morning.
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If Iago / Janus sees backward, he also most of the time speaks backward through the use of preterition or chiasmus, in which the language is turned at one and the same time both ways, towards the right and towards the left.
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Two means are fore-ordained for the execution of the act of preterition: (1.)
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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Third, Olson raises this objection in the context of preterition and reprobation (he never uses the term preterition and seems to be unaware of this important distinction).
Triablogue
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The second of these reasons is that which states the two parts of reprobation to be preterition and predamnation.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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A particular mode or signification is when it is opposed to election, and designates non-election or preterition (a Latin phrase derived from forensic use) in which sense the fathers used it according to the common use of the Latins.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
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New England settlers, true believers in election and preterition, helped found a country where free will is given vast rein.
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As far as we are capable of comprehending their scheme of reprobation it consists of two acts, that of preterition and that of predamnatian.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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Their doctrine of election, they are free to tell us, for example, does certainly involve a corresponding doctrine of preterition.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination