hysterosis

English

Etymology

From hystero- +‎ -sis.

Noun

hysterosis (plural hysteroses)

  1. (obsolete, rhetoric) A hysteron proteron; hysterology. [17–18th c.]
    • 1606, Robert Allen, The Doctrine of the Gospel, London:  […] Thomas Creede, page 85:
      Theſe ſimilitudes wherevnto God likeneth himſelfe, they are partlie in repect[sic] of his Church and children: and partlie in reſpect of the wicked.
      And that we may by an hyſteroſis beginne firſt with thoſe that concerne the wicked: […]

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