1. prooftext - Noun
2. prooftext - Verb
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prooftext (plural prooftexts)
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.
prooftext (third-person singular simple present prooftexts, present participle prooftexting, simple past and past participle prooftexted)
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.