assumption vs prolepsis

assumption

noun
  • The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim. 

  • A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August. 

  • Assumptio. 

  • The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 

  • The taking of a person up into heaven. 

  • The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting. 

  • The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. 

prolepsis

noun
  • The anticipation of an objection to an argument. 

  • Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem. 

  • A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond. 

  • A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world. 

  • The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device. 

  • The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. 

How often have the words assumption and prolepsis occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )