prooftext
English
Etymology
Noun
prooftext (plural prooftexts)
- The practice of using decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.
References
- Prooftext, Prooftexting, in Definition of Christian Terms
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