prooftext English

Meaning prooftext meaning

What does prooftext mean?

prooftext noun

— 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 verb

— 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.