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). From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
(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."). From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
Indeed no others are damned, except those who are the subjects of this act of preterition. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
The second of these reasons is that which states the two parts of reprobation to be preterition and predamnation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
Their doctrine of election, they are free to tell us, for example, does certainly involve a corresponding doctrine of preterition. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference
As far as we are capable of comprehending their scheme of reprobation it consists of two acts, that of preterition and that of predamnatian. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
The general use is when non-election, or preterition and damnation, is comprehended in the word, in which way Calvin and Beza frequently understood it, yet so as to make some distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
First, that a two-fold action is attributed, by those who discuss this matter, to justice, so far as it premises over the decree of reprobation, or preterition and predamnation, and this in harmony with the nature of the subject; the former is negative, the latter affirmative, and in this order that the negative precedes the affirmative. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
For the first presents mercy and justice as preparing an object for themselves; the third introduces the same attributes as finding their object prepared; the second places grace, which holds the relation of genus to mercy, over predestination; and liberty of grace over non-election or the preparation of preterition, and justice over punishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have said that professors feel less restricted about the expressions they use (idioms, similes, metaphors, synecdoche, preterition) when teaching than do K-8 teachers, but now I think otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [FemaleScienceProfessor] Reference
That poverty and blight are metaphysical conditions -- preterition, even -- and that only a descender from the heavenly realms (upper middle classes) can describe it in thoughts worth having would seem to be an easy criticism to make of the book, as would its apparent scrupulous avoidance of the large-scale socioeconomic forces that have deformed the lives of most of its characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
Axiom xlix, "Nor is preterition indeed the cause of reprobation or damnation, but only its antecedent. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
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