parusia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).

Noun

parusia (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones.

Related terms

• parousia

See also

• historical present

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parusia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Noun

parusia f (plural parusie)

1. parousia

Anagrams

• spaurai