prooftext (English, verb)
expansion: prooftext (third-person singular simple present prooftexts, present participle prooftexting, simple past and past participle prooftexted)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: prooftexts
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prooftexting
tags: participle
present
form: prooftexted
tags: participle
past
form: prooftexted
tags: past